by Michel de Grèce · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782855652535
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«La femme sacrée» is the historical novel by Michel de Grèce, published by Olivier Orban in 1984 in paperback (486 pages, in French).
The story is set in 1857, when the Sepoy Rebellion against British rule breaks out in India. The novel follows Lakshmi, sovereign of the state of Jhansi, a young widow who emerges from purdah to assume power and becomes a symbol of resistance, torn between love for an Englishman and her rejection of the occupier.
The cover subtitle is «roman»; the work belongs to the History category.
For readers of historical fiction interested in colonial India, the British Empire, and biographies of powerful women.
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