Sissi - Une femme au delà du conte de fées #[nn]

Published by Steinkis in 2019, this French-language graphic novel presents Empress Sissi as something more complex than royal mythology allows — "une femme au-delà du conte de fées," a woman beyond the fairy tale. Giorgia Marras's cover illustration sets the tone beautifully: a dark-haired woman in an elegant rose-toned Victorian gown holds a parasol aloft amid alpine meadows and pine forests, mountain peaks rising behind her — serene yet quietly self-possessed. It's a quietly striking introduction to what promises to be a thoughtful, humanizing portrait of one of history's most romanticized figures.