by Eugène Le Roy · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782013214858
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«Jacquou le Croquant» is Eugène Le Roy's historical novel, published by Hachette in paperback (1999), in French.
The novel is set in the Périgord in the early 19th century and recounts the life of Jacquou, a peasant boy who grows up amid misery and the oppression of the powerful. As an adult, he becomes the protagonist of the peasants' revolt against injustice, in a story combining adventure, collective memory, and social critique, with echoes of the revolutionary epic.
Work originally published in 1899; this paperback edition from Hachette is from 1999 and is in French.
For readers of classics and French historical novels; it is frequently assigned reading in schools.
