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EAN : 9782258202238
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 384
Size : 140 x 225 mm
When the Winds of Freedom Swept Across the Earth

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 08/09/2022
In the 19th century, a small town in the Morvan in Burgundy undergoes major upheavals. Greed, jealousy and mutual mistrust upend the peaceful lives that its inhabitants had hitherto been leading.
A wind of freedom is sweeping across the France of the 1840s with the rise of liberalism, the first railways and the creation of lay schools. But the transformation of archaic rural communities into a modern society is by no means painless…

In La Rudel, a small isolated town in the...
A wind of freedom is sweeping across the France of the 1840s with the rise of liberalism, the first railways and the creation of lay schools. But the transformation of archaic rural communities into a modern society is by no means painless…

In La Rudel, a small isolated town in the Morvan in Burgundy, Céline begins looking after herself from a very young age while her father Athanase is out in the forest and taking care of her grandmother, the animals and the family mill. As the scents of modernity start to waft through her village, Céline’s encounter with Madame d’Esternon opens
up new horizons to her. Her new friend teaches her to read and converts her to her feminist outlook, much to the astonishment of Athanase and Gilles, a young and ambitious clerk who has succumbed to the young lady’s charms.
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EAN : 9782258202238
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 384
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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