by Françoise Chandernagor · ISBN 9782070343225
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«L'enfant des lumières» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by Gallimard in paperback (690 pages, in French).
Widowed at thirty after her husband's suicide, ruined by speculators, the Countess of Breyves flees Paris with her seven-year-old son, Alexis. Devoted to educating him to make him invulnerable, this novel of maternal love, set on the eve of the Revolution, asks what values to pass on when society falls apart.
The work was originally published in 1995 and this edition belongs to the Folio collection from Gallimard.
For those who enjoy period French fiction and mother-son relationships.
Françoise Chandernagor is a French writer. The daughter of André Chandernagor, she is a former student of the École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.
