Au Plaisir de Dieu, by Jean d'Ormesson

I watched a television series when I was a kid, in the 70s, Au Plaisir de Dieu, and I remember liking it, so recently I bought the book. It's a good book, about the end of an era, depicting the story of the decadence of an old aristocratic French family, a relic of the Ancien Régime, in the 20th century. It's very well written, in the classic French tradition of Martin du Gard, Proust, Marguerite Yourcenar or, later, Le Clézio and Tournier. I think it would be more powerful if it ended at the sale of the château, the last chapters are somewhat stretched, but the narrative is always nostalgically beautiful, with some great characters and very accomplished scenes.