by Hendrik Conscience · Antigonos Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783563022535
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«Le démon du jeu» is the novel by Belgian author Hendrik Conscience, published by Antigonos Verlag in hardcover (324 pages, in French).
Complete reprint of the original 1868 edition; the present edition was published on May 6, 2025.
Aimed at collectors of 19th-century classics and lovers of historical prose in French.
Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.
