The Queen's Caprice: Stories

CREDITS

These stories, now slightly modified, were published in the following works or periodicals.

Marie-Paule Baussan provided the idea behind “Nelson”: Le Garage, no. 1, 2010.

“The Queen’s Caprice” (“Caprice de la reine”) was written for Jean-Christophe Bailly: Les Cahiers de l’École de Blois, no. 4, January 2006.

“In Babylon” was commissioned by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants to mark their recording of Handel’s oratorio Belshazzar in October 2013.

“Twenty Women in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Clockwise” is included in Sophie Ristelhueber’s Le Luxembourg, Paris-Musées, 2002.

An extract from “Civil Engineering” was sent to Patrick Deville, literary director of the Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs de Saint-Nazaire, and appeared in a bulletin of that organization’s international writers’ symposia: meeting, no. 4, 2006.

“Nitrox” was published in Tango, no. 1, May 2010.

“Three Sandwiches at Le Bourget” took shape in the context of a theatrical project in 2014, stemming from a suggestion by Gilberte Tsaï.