by Françoise Chandernagor · France Loisirs · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724292176
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«L'enfant des Lumières» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by France Loisirs in hardcover (499 pages, in French).
After the ruin and suicide of her husband, Madame de Breyves flees Paris with her seven-year-old son Alexis and devotes her life to preparing him for adversity. Set in pre-revolutionary France, the novel asks how far one should harden one's children and what values to pass on when society is falling apart.
This edition is from 1996; the novel was originally published in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction who appreciate portraits of pre-revolutionary France and reflections on education.
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.
