Title: The Ladies' Room - Jeanne Bourin - book
Summary :
Elle Roman Readers' Prize 1979 - Press House Prize 1979
Never before had the Middle Ages inspired such a novel, the chronicle of a family living in the 13th century. century, in the kingdom of Saint Louis. Jeanne Bourin recounts the daily life of the Brunels, goldsmiths in Paris, especially that of the women and, in particular, of two of them: Mathilde, the mother, thirty-four years old, and Florie, her daughter, fifteen years old, who is getting married. Everything seems calm, assured. Nothing is, because a mad passion and dramatic events will ravage the lives of the Brunels.
While the plot may be imaginary, the historical setting is not. Rigorous documentation lends authenticity to even the smallest detail, which the eminent medievalist Régine Pernoud was pleased to confirm in her preface: the Brunels live before our eyes as they did in that radiant century when carnal and spiritual life were happily combined. And many preconceived ideas are shattered.
