by Annie Sanerot-Degroote · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258038295
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«La kermesse du diable», historical novel by Annie Sanerot-Degroote, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (366 pp., in French).
In 17th-century Flanders, it follows Renelde Van Eyck, a brewer's daughter from Lille, over twenty years: convent, unhappy marriage, siege of Lille by Louis XIV and plague. When she founds a lace workshop, she meets the enigmatic Monsieur Grégoire, suspected of heresy; witch hunts and forbidden loves lead to the Easter kermesse.
The work originally appeared in 1993; the volume includes a preface by Jacques Duquesne.
For readers of historical fiction and French regional fiction, with a female protagonist who makes her way in 17th-century Flanders.
