Huge attendance on November 24th 1997 at the Pavillon Elysée-Lenôtre for the 1997 Prix Hughes Capet. During the cocktail for the press, thrity one descendants of Hughes Capet, accompanied by 350 guests applauded the success of Jean Sévillia for his biography of the Empress Zita, born Princess de Bourbon Parme. A gala dinner followed, attended by 250 parisian personalities, members of the gotha and writers, under the presidence of HRH the Comtesse de Paris and in the presence of Princess Napoleon and of Minister Jean-Pierre Soisson, awarded the second prize for his work "Charles le Téméraire"