by Michel Peyramaure · Le Grand livre du mois · tapa dura · ISBN 9782702853849
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«La tour des anges» is the historical novel by Michel Peyramaure published by Le Grand livre du mois in 2000 in hardback (463 pages, in French).
In the fourteenth century, seven French popes make Avignon the capital of Christendom and build the palace that still endures. Julio Grimaldi, a peasant's son, becomes a Curia official: he moves through the underworld and the halls of power, attends parties and scandals, and suffers the Black Death and the Hundred Years' War.
The first edition of the work dates from 1997; the present edition is from 2000 and bears the subtitle «roman» on the cover.
For readers interested in the Avignon papacy, the French Middle Ages and courtly intrigues.
Michel Peyramaure was a French writer. He received the 1979 Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL.
