Title : The Paths of Adventure - Juliette Benzoni - book

Summary :

Adventure with a capital A and in every sense of the word: glorious, desperate, sordid, or ambitious. Spartacus, the rebellious slave, who breaks his chains and briefly threatens all-powerful Rome, chooses to live dangerously. Gilles de Rais, Marshal of France at twenty-five and companion of Joan of Arc, loses his life on the scaffold. Stenka Razine, the rebellious Cossack, is quartered. However, Jeanne de Clisson, who, out of despair for love, scours the seas with incredible ferocity and stands up to King Philip VI of France, peacefully breathes her last in her bed, just like the Duke of Guise at the royal Château de Blois or the brave Bussy d'Amboise in an Angevin manor. As for the fanatical loyalty of a Cadoudal, it elevates Adventure to its highest peaks while it sinks with Brinvilliers and Jeanne de La Motte-Valois. Adventurers possess in their hearts, perhaps more than other mortals, the violence of human passions. Their ghosts, soberly evoked, despite the blood and tears - or perhaps because of them - emit a moving light that the centuries have not weakened and that Juliette Benzoni, with her talents as a storyteller, knows so well how to recreate.

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