Title : The Great Heart - Jean-Christophe Rufin - Book
Summary :
2012 Historical Novel Prize
In the heat of a Greek island, a man hides to escape his pursuers. He recalls his extraordinary life and attempts to unravel the skein of his destiny. The son of a humble furrier, he became the richest man in France. He enabled Charles VII to end the Hundred Years' War. He changed the way people viewed the Orient. With him, Europe moved from the time of the Crusades to that of trade. Like his palace in Bourges, a medieval castle on one side and a Renaissance palace on the other, he is a two-faced being. As familiar with kings and the pope as with the humblest homes, he traveled throughout the known world. At the height of his fame, he experienced fall, destitution, and torture before regaining freedom and fortune. Of all the attachments in his life, the most moving was the one that bound him to Agnès Sorel, the Lady of Beauty, the first royal favorite in the history of France, who died at the age of twenty-eight. Her name is Jacques Coeur. We must forget everything we know about the Middle Ages and immerse ourselves in the freshness of this book. It has the power of a picaresque novel, the precision of a biography, and the melancholic charm of confessions.
- EAN: 9782070119424
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