sentences:  Édouard's journal entry in chapter 12 of the third part, which makes mention of a 1904 vintage wine, seems to confirm this supposition with a more specific range of time in which the novel is likely to be set.The setting must take place at least after 1898, the year in which the shipwreck of La Bourgogne occurred.In 2010, a French TV film based on the novel was directed by Benoît Jacquot, starring Melvil Poupaud as Edouard X., Maxime Berger as Olivier, and Dolores Chaplin as Lady Lilian Griffith.