by Françoise Chandernagor · Editions de Fallois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877064460
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«L'Enfant des Lumières» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by Editions de Fallois in paperback (430 pages, in French).
In pre-revolutionary 18th-century France, a ruined young widow retires to the countryside with her seven-year-old son to educate him. The relationship between the mother, marked by tragedy, and the child, gifted for happiness, raises the dilemma of raising him for revenge or for life, as the Ancien Régime crumbles.
The author belongs to the Académie Goncourt, according to the cover; the work was originally published in 1995.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction, especially those interested in the French Revolution and mother-child 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.
