Title : The Barbarian Princess - Nicole Fabre - book
Summary :
The year is 878. In the clumsy hands of his descendants, Charlemagne's immense empire is slowly disintegrating. Taking advantage of this unrest, the Scandinavians attempt to invade Western Europe. On the foggy shores of the North Sea, one of their expeditions is wiped out by Saxon raiders. Only Inga, a barbarian princess, and her servant Vigtis escape the massacre. Enslaved, they end their odyssey in the market square of Arles, where Audifré, manager of the Fabrègue estate, moved by Inga's strange beauty, buys them. He is far from suspecting the upheavals their arrival in Fabrègue will cause: while the Burgundian threat looms over Provence in the person of Boson, Duke of Provence-Viennois, determined to usurp part of the Carolingian heritage. Without ever betraying history, this powerful novel traces a surprisingly civilized daily life in 9th-century Provence and the merciless struggles waged by the heirs of Charlemagne, under the interested arbitration of the princes of the Church. Creating a plot in which real and fictional characters evolve is the challenge taken and won by Nicole Fabre.
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EAN: 9782253059905
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