Title : The Wine of Freedom - David Haziot - book

Summary :

Bordeaux, March 1789. At the Grand-Théâtre, The Marriage of Figaro is finally being performed. There are Jean-François Cornu de Boisancourt, a gentleman who loves art and women; Hortense Laprade, the young and beautiful niece of a wealthy merchant; the actresses Henriette Piccinni and Louise Clairville; and the young Louis d'Estournel, who is searching for meaning in his life and dreams of growing a great wine on his family lands in Médoc, the equal of Latour and other Lafites. On the eve of the Estates-General, happiness seems within reach... and love is in people's hearts. But the Revolution disrupts all too predictable situations, throws some down side roads, others into madness and death, provokes encounters that should never have happened and the most unexpected twists and turns. Louis, while learning about life, beauty, love, and sensuality, will end up creating a great wine, born of the thirst for freedom that gripped France in the late 18th century. A historical novel, but also a reflection on the aspiration for happiness that sometimes pushes men to the worst, The Wine of Freedom evokes a world where the vine is at the heart of all passions...

• EAN : 9782221092286
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