by Patrick Rambaud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246633518
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«L'Absent» is a historical novel by Patrick Rambaud, published by Grasset in hardcover (354 pages, in French).
In 1814, with France invaded and Paris besieged, imperial agent Octave infiltrates royalist circles preparing the return of the Bourbons. After Napoleon's abdication, he witnesses his confinement at Fontainebleau and his exile on the island of Elba, where the emperor shows vulnerability. Espionage and loyalty in the twilight of the Empire.
The work is the third installment of Patrick Rambaud's Fin d’Empire series, after La Bataille and Il neigeait. The original edition was published in 2003.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Napoleonic era and political conspiracies of Paris in 1814.
Patrick Rambaud is a French writer.
