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EAN : 9782258094376
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 624
Size : 140 x 225 mm
The Rocheforts

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 06/03/2014
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An early 20th century, brilliantly structured saga about two families whose destinies are tied together for better and for worse…

 
1898. One winter night in Nîmes, a newborn baby, Vincent, is left at an orphanage; his birth shrouded in secrecy.
 
Several years later…Anselme Rochefort, bullying patriarch of a large family, builds his industrial empire on the fabrication of denim that he sells to Levi Strauss & Co.  He rents a section...
1898. One winter night in Nîmes, a newborn baby, Vincent, is left at an orphanage; his birth shrouded in secrecy.
 
Several years later…Anselme Rochefort, bullying patriarch of a large family, builds his industrial empire on the fabrication of denim that he sells to Levi Strauss & Co.  He rents a section of his land to a wealthy farmer, Donatien Rouvière, also at the head of a large family which includes the now adopted Vincent.
 
An arranged marriage between two of their children is to be the first of many alliances and conflicts.  Above all, it paves the way for a sweeping epic of love, greed, betrayal and genuinely shocking family secrets…
 
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EAN : 9782258094376
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 624
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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