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Dans les Ténèbres du Soleil
[978-2-35291-061-9]
18.00EUR 17.10EUR - 192 Pages
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ISBN : 978-2-35291-061-9
Roman Historique
Collection Pierrefeu
Le Grand Siècle
dans toute sa splendeur et sa noirceur :
l’histoire d’amour entre Jean Racine
et Pascaline de Lignol. Early 1679 : Louis XIV has reached the acme of his power and glory. The brightness of the French Court dazzles everyone everywhere in Europe.
Yet, in that same year a tremendous clap of thunder breaks out : the sinister and famous Poisons Case which begins in April, in an atmosphere of suspicion, arrests and executions. Meanwhile, an unquenchable love consumes Jean Racine’s heart, the playwright and the King’s historiograph, for Pascaline de Lignol, a beautiful and rebellious aristocrat.
Coming from everywhere, whether from the Louvres to the building site of Versailles, from hostels in the Marais district to the den of thieves, the characters of the novel – historical and imaginary – consort freely with each other, people from the court and writers, beggars and prelates, ministers and pickpockets.
The plot opens out with its lot of violences, hatred, passions, plots, mysteries and … love…
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