by Eric Marchal · ANNE CARRIERE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782843376092
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«Le soleil sous la soie» is the historical novel by Éric Marchal, published by Anne Carrière in paperback (629 pages, in French).
At the beginning of the 18th century, the traveling surgeon Nicolas Déruet is imprisoned after a failed operation and must go into exile in the campaigns against the Turks. Back in Nancy, he develops his craft at the Saint-Charles hospital to clear his honor, torn between the midwife Marianne Pajot and the marquise Rosa de Cornelli.
Set between Lorraine and the Hungarian steppes, the narrative moves through military hospitals and royal palaces.
For readers of historical fiction who enjoy plots of adventure, surgery and war in 18th-century Europe.
