The Glory of the Empire
| Author | Jean d'Ormesson |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Gloire de l'empire |
| Translator | Barbara Bray |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 29 September 1971 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1974 |
| Pages | 536 |
| ISBN | 2-07-028035-7 |
The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History (French: La Gloire de l'empire) is a 1971 novel by the French writer Jean d'Ormesson. It is written as a history book about a fictional ancient empire. The book was awarded the 1971 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
William Beauchamp of The New York Times described the book as a satire that "undermines important assumptions of the reigning ideology: that history is objective; narratives, neutral; that language transmits pre‐existing truth", and wrote that Ormesson's status in the French establishment contributes to making the book subversive.