Les Dames de Tarnhac | Guillemette de La Borie

EAN : 9782258192140

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 496

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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The Ladies of Tarnhac

Guillemette de La Borie

Collection : Terres de France

Release date : 10/06/2021

In the 20th century, in the heart of the Black Perigord, the endearing chronicle of a community of women around the cultivation of tobacco.

The castle of Tarnhac, perched high above the Dordogne valley, gathers a small community of lords of the manor, servants and sharecroppers, isolated, living apart from the world, and withdrawn into the secret of the Tarnhacs' heir. Mondane, twenty years old, joins a husband whom she is afraid of and... The castle of Tarnhac, perched high above the Dordogne valley, gathers a small community of lords of the manor, servants and sharecroppers, isolated, living apart from the world, and withdrawn into the secret of the Tarnhacs' heir. Mondane, twenty years old, joins a husband whom she is afraid of and a mother-in-law used to rule everything. The young woman soon feels like a stranger. In 1914, the men, called up to enlist, leave the castle. Mondane, freed from her worries, can finally reveal her true temperament. She takes charge of the estate, to which she has become attached, and develops the cultivation of tobacco, the demand for which increases throughout the 20th century, especially during the two world wars. This precious tobacco was in fact part of the soldiers' kit. Powerful bonds of solidarity and friendship gradually bind all the women of Tarnhac...

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EAN : 9782258192140

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 496

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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