Just two days after the French translation of Spare went on sale, publisher Fayard decided to print an additional 130,000 copies.
About 210,000 editions of the royal memoir, Le Supplant, were sold in the first 48 hours of the book’s shelf life, though Fayard is unsure of the exact numbers.
Spare’s popularity across the Channel is perhaps surprising given France’s revolutionary past.
At the end of the 16th century, the French monarch was deposed and in 1792 the first French republic was founded.
Despite France’s apparent contempt for its own monarchy, there is a fascination with Britain’s.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, French President Emmanuel Macron even said that Her Majesty had “a special status in France and a special place in the hearts of the French people”.
The French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, even ordered public buildings to fly their flags at half-mast after the Queen’s death.
The Duke of Sussex’s royal reveal is so popular that it even outperforms the French translation of Barack Obama’s 2020 memoir.
According to Reuters, A Promised Land has so far been sold out by Spare by 20 percent.
Spare’s French success comes as King Charles is about to make his first visit to France since his accession to the throne.
According to Le Parisien, His Majesty and Queen Consort Camilla will attend a state dinner at the Elysee Palace in March and meet Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron.
According to The Telegraph, the invitation was said to have been given to King Charles when Emmanuel Macron traveled to the UK for the Queen’s funeral.
He said: “I think the British people and the King felt France’s deep affection for them and the emotion we shared.”
French royal commentator Stéphane Berne said on radio station Europe 1: “Recounting his cocaine experiences, his drinking binges, his first experience with an elderly woman, drunk behind a pub, washing his dirty laundry outside the palace, all make for a somewhat pitiful and pitiful sight.”
“One has the impression that he has lost all sense of decency, of what should or should not be said. What is exaggerated is insignificant. I think it is exaggerated.”