by Michel Ragon · ISBN 9782253037279
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«Les mouchoirs rouges de Cholet» is the historical novel by Michel Ragon, published by Albin Michel in the Le Livre de Poche collection in French (352 pages).
In 1796, in a village in the Vendée devastated by the Infernal Columns, survivors try to rebuild their lives. Michel Ragon blends history, local myths (hussars, wandering souls, ogres, fradets and a half-warlock priest) and the Chouan resistance, with episodes such as Napoleon I's visit in 1808 and the return of the Bourbons, and paints an almost ethnographic portrait of rural life.
Winner of the Prix de l'Académie de Bretagne. The novel was originally published in 1983; this paperback edition is from 1986.
For readers of historical fiction interested in rural France, the Vendée and the Chouan wars.
Michel Ragon was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature.
