by Victoria Mas · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253103622
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«Le Bal des folles» is the historical novel by Victoria Mas, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (234 pages, in French).
Paris, 1885: at the Salpêtrière, the ball of the madwomen takes place, where high society dances with the inmates. Behind the party lie confinement and Charcot's experiments. The novel follows Eugénie, Louise, Thérèse and Geneviève, women punished for deviating, in a hymn to freedom against nineteenth-century oppression.
First novel by Victoria Mas, winner of the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens, the Prix Première Plume and the Prix Stanislas in 2019.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about the condition of women in the nineteenth century.
