Title : The Great Fire - Jeanne Bourin - Book

Summary :

The fire at Fréteval Castle brings Bernold, a young master glassmaker, and Isambour, a canvas embroiderer, together. They love each other. With a tender and passionate love. But the young girl's uncle wants to marry her to the miller's son. Bernold kidnaps Isambour. After this chivalrous abduction, he takes her to Blois and marries her. A novel of this love that lasts the twenty years of the couple's life, The Great Fire is also a story of the entire feudal society of the early 12th century. Around Blois, and in the Loir Valley, villages and towns, churches and fortified keeps are built; Princess Adèle, daughter of William the Conqueror, introduces a new way of life; crusaders return from the Holy Land; epidemics and famines are evoked in passing. As in the Bayeux tapestries, which have just been completed, it is a whole changing world - from peasants to artisans and lords - that Jeanne Bourin reveals here, and brings back to life.

• EAN: 9782070379255
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