by Gilles Perrault · RAMSAY / Le grand livre du mois. · tapa dura · ISBN 9782245016176
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«Les gens d'ici» is the historical chronicle by Gilles Perrault, published in 1981 by Ramsay / Le grand livre du mois in hardcover (463 pages, in French).
The book reconstructs the history of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, a village on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, from the Viking raids to the Utah Beach landing and the wars that marked the region. Gilles Perrault, settled there since 1961, weaves the grand narrative of history with the everyday stories of its inhabitants, turning the municipal chronicle into a portrait of France.
The work is listed in the History category and its Dewey classification is 840, French literature.
For readers interested in the local history of Normandy and in chronicles that portray French rural life.
Jacques Peyroles, better known by his pen name Gilles Perrault, was a French writer and journalist.
