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The Colours of Destiny

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 02/09/2021
The south of France, 19th century.
In a small village in the Cévennes, unbeloved by her father, Sixtine takes refuge in her daydreams. When her mother dies, she seeks consolation in the arms of Jean-Baptiste Le Vignal, a son of rich landowners who will become the father of her child. But the young man is enlisted... In a small village in the Cévennes, unbeloved by her father, Sixtine takes refuge in her daydreams. When her mother dies, she seeks consolation in the arms of Jean-Baptiste Le Vignal, a son of rich landowners who will become the father of her child. But the young man is enlisted into Napoleon’s army and dies at the front during the war. The pregnant young woman, held in contempt by the Le Vignal family, decides to flee and arrives under a pseudonym in Provence, where destiny knocks in the person of Jaume Mercadier, a rich manufacturer. Struck by her charm, enchanted by her talent for drawing and moved by her past, he marries Sixtine. Time does it work and, despite their age difference, Sixtine comes to love her husband and her adopted region but one day she has to return to the village of her birth to protect her family against the cholera epidemic that is ravaging Provence. It is an opportunity for her to take her revenge by buying the Le Vignal estate of the and also to uncover the secret of her birth and the causes of her unhappy childhood.
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EAN : 9782258164109
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DRM : DRM Adobe
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