Once upon a day, there was Cleopatra.

Content : My name is Iras, and when I was very young, I entered the service of Queen Cleopatra. By her side, I saw everything, lived through everything: her quarrels with her younger brother while, at the age of nineteen, she ruled the kingdom of Egypt alongside him; her exile to escape assassination; her extraordinary meeting with Julius Caesar; the sincere love that bound this pharaoh to the Roman general; her journey along the Nile, and then to Rome…

Courage, passion, alliances, slander and battles — I recount everything I shared with Cleopatra, this great queen whose life was as tumultuous as a novel.

Selection for the 2026 Chateaubriand Prize for Secondary School Students.
Selection for the 2026 Blois Youth Historical Novel Prize, CM2–Year 7 Category.