Renaudot Prize for Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre and “Milady”!

A huge congratulations to Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre, winner of the 2025 Prix Renaudot with “Milady”! Such a well-deserved award for one of the most luminous voices in contemporary French fiction.

She has been called many things—murderess, seductress, spy….
In The Three Musketeers, Milady de Winter is remembered as the villain who stopped at nothing to get what she wanted. But what if that version of her was shaped by the misogynistic fantasies of another age?

Fierce, captivating, and unapologetically free, Adelaide gives life to an unforgettable heroine. The voice of a woman in a time of men.