by Jean Anglade · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258045088
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«Le Saintier» is the historical novel by Jean Anglade, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (302 pages, in French).
A fictionalized account of the Mosnier family, a dynasty of bell founders from Viverols (Auvergne) that supplied half of France for three and a half centuries. Its greatest achievement comes with Pardoux Mosnier, invited by Peter the Great to Moscow: to cast Czar Kolokol, the heaviest bell in the world, 218 tons. It raises the question of why the family ceased their art in 1738.
Published on August 21, 1997, the novel belongs to the Terres de France collection of Presses de la Cité.
For readers of historical fiction and rural France, with an interest in traditional crafts and the Russia of Peter the Great.
