L'AUTEUR A history and geography
teacher in Alsace, Sonia
Pelletier-Gautier is mostly
inspired by her university
researches in medieval and
regional history to
outline a
very accurate picture of the
Germanic Roman Empire Society
at the awakening of Rhenan
humanism.
Rich with archaeological and
museum experiences, she also
published a number of articles
in newspapers and historical
magazines, taking part, as
well, in collective works,
such as the dictionary of
Alsacian biographies.
On top of that, her thesis was
awarded a prize by the
“Conseil Général du Haut
Rhin”, and published,
warranted by the “Société
Savante” of Eastern Regions.
Mixing up Rhenan forgotten of
famous actors with fiction but
credible characters, she
restores from the past the
fear of inquisition to
stimulate her contemporaries’
thinking about vanity of
certainties at a time that
could be theirs.
Etienne ou la Tourmente parisienne[978-2-35291-037-4] 20.00EUR 19.00EUR - 320 Pages 150 x 230 ISBN : 978-2-35291-037-4 Roman Historique Collection Pierrefeu
La rive gauche de la Seine au temps de Charles VII. La vie tumultueuse d’un étudiant germanique.
1444-1445 - Two young people from Bâle, Pierre Mor and his friend Gaspard Maner, are students at Paris university, the first one as a law-student, the second a student in theology. As « school-boys » they had adventurous lives which will be François Villon’s less than ten years later. France monarchy, at the time, is radically changing and king Charles VII is confronted with enormous challenges : renewing Paris deeply wounded by seven years of English invasion ; modernizing both civil and military administration, reducing the University privileges, suspected of having taken sides with the enemy. The intellectual centre of the Seine left bank faces then its king and fights are really hard ones.
Pierre finds himself implied in those fights which become his own ; his friend Agnès belongs to the Regnault de Chartres’ family, the kingdom Chancellor. His friend Etienne is being arrested during a fight between students and middle-class people and is then put without any judgment, into a Châtelet dungeon, where he is left despise the university very old privileges.
Etienne’s fate is directly linked to fights for power, to intrigues taking place in the king’s Court and to the risks connected with « the parisian upheaval ».
The novel is the first part of Pierre Mor’s fictitious life and he will become one of the big dominican figures of his time as well as the reference to Ulrich Bichwiller’s priest who is the center of our preceeding trilogy called « The Inquisitor’s dilemnas ».
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