by Michel Jeury · FRANCE LOISIRS / LAFFONT · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724271508
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«La grâce et le venin» is the novel by Michel Jeury, published by France Loisirs / Laffont in hardcover (369 pages, in French).
In rural Limousin in the 19th century, Aline Colin, an orphan gifted from childhood, learns from a healer the gift of «leveuse de maux»: relieving burns, removing splinters and clearing fields of pests. Widowed by around 1925, she tells her life story to a notary: passions, secrets, a crime and a final tragedy, until she seeks someone to pass on her gift.
The work is subtitled «Vie et mort d'Aline Colin, leveuse de maux» and was published in 1993.
For readers of historical fiction interested in folk healing traditions and the lives of women in rural 19th-century France.
Michel Jeury was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. He also used the pseudonym of Albert Higon.
