by Pierre Darmon · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246230410
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«Gabrielle Perreau, femme adultère» is the novel by Pierre Darmon, published by B. Grasset in 1981, in paperback (244 pages, in French).
Based on a real case in late 17th-century Paris: Gabrielle Perreau, married by her father to an apothecary, becomes the mistress of a banker to the king. The narrative moves from an astrologer's study to an apothecary's counter, from the court of Louis XIV to the prisons of the Châtelet and the Conciergerie, and shows the harshness of the law towards adulterous women.
The cover bears the subtitle «roman»; Open Library places the original edition in Paris, and Goodreads describes it as a French paperback edition.
For readers of historical fiction and for those who appreciate stories based on real events from 17th-century France.
Pierre Darmon is a French former tennis player. He was ranked No.8 in the world in 1963, and also reached the top ten in 1958 and 1964.
