Les Sabots de Paris

Synopsis of Les Sabots de Paris

«Les Sabots de Paris» is the historical novel by Georges Coulonges, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (332 pages, in French).

Paris, 1840: Sylvestre-Marcelin Chabrol, a mason from the Creuse, shares the hard lot of provincials who emigrated to the capital: arduous work, contempt and suspicion. Among brotherhoods, drinking bouts and songs in dialect, he finds in Nanette, a sweet Norman servant girl, a refuge and a union against adversity.

First installment of the series «Les chemins de nos pères»; part of the «Terres de France» collection from Presses de la Cité.

For readers of historical fiction and French terroir narrative, with an interest in the popular life of nineteenth-century Paris.