Title: The Wind of Dawn - Françoise Bourdon - book
Summary :
Marked by the tragedy that wiped out her people and her family, Nevart, a young seventeen-year-old Armenian, arrived in Marseille in 1915. Recruited into a silk mill in the Drôme region, she discovered lavender and began cultivating it. Through tenacity and courage, she finally realized her dream.
In 1935, Erich Schwabele, a German-Jewish writer, arrived in the village. Between him and Nevart, there was a mad and irresistible love. A love cruelly threatened by the approach of war...