by Michel Jeury · FRANCE LOISIRS / LAFFONT · tapa dura · ISBN 9782744122231
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«La vallée de la soie» is the novel by Michel Jeury, published by France Loisirs / Laffont in hardback (421 pages, in French).
Alexandrine Jourdan, daughter of a muleteer in the 19th-century Cévennes, dreams of owning her own spinning mill. At fourteen, she enters the region's largest factory, where foreman Charles Rabanel imposes a climate of violence. Thanks to her knowledge of Protestant texts, she is entrusted with the religious education of François-David Favière's children; the ensuing marriage ends in drama.
Published in 1999, it falls under the category of Literature and Fiction.
For readers of historical fiction interested in rural 19th-century France and protagonists who fight for their independence.
Michel Jeury was a French science fiction writer, reputed in the 1970s. He also used the pseudonym of Albert Higon.
