The Last Banquet

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Jonathan Grimwood. The Last Banquet

THE LAST. BANQUET

Contents

Prologue

1723. Dung-heap Meals

1724. School

1728. Hanging the Dog. To cook mice

To cook sparrow

To cook cat

To cook dog

What the Chinese eat

The Thorn Bush

1730. Military Academy

1734. The Injured Wolf

Patronage

Inventing Old Recipes

Pickled wolf’s heart

1736. The Hunt

1736. Charlot Injured

The Upturned Boat

The King’s Mistress

1738. Marriage

1742. The Barbary Goat

To cook arudi

To make the perfect redingotes Anglaise

1748. Charlot Marries

1757. The Lover

1758. Responsibilities

Three-snake bouillabaisse

Fried snake

1758. Hope

1762. Master of the Menagerie

1763. Virginie

To cook flamingo tongue

1763. Funeral

1768. Mission to Corsica

The Fall

Supper with Candles. To cook foie gras en croute

Leaving Versailles

Arrest

1769. Freedom

Brocciu di Dónna

Simple brocciu di Dónna

1770. The Return

1771. The Proposal

1771. Elopement

1777. Ben Franklin Visits

To cook Celeste’s alligator stew

1784. The Loris

1790. Revolution

Barbarians at the Gate

Endnotes. Note 1

Note 2

Acknowledgements

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Jonathan Grimwood

Edinburgh • London

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He shook his head and wiped my face one last time, brushing crust from the corner of my eyes and snot from beneath my nose. When I returned to where the others waited they were more solemn than ever. The one called vicomte knelt in front of me, despite the dirt, to ask what had happened to the things in the house. ‘They were taken,’ I said.

‘By whom?’

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