by Marie-Paul Armand · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258072558
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«Le pain rouge» is the historical novel by Marie-Paul Armand, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (477 pages, in French).
Set in northern France in the eighteenth century, it tells the life of Mathilde, a young peasant woman who helps her family amid exhausting work, abusive taxes and the risk of famines. Mathilde spurns the son of the village lord because she loves Blaise, the carter's son. While the revolution spreads from Paris, she longs for a better world for her own.
The work belongs to the Terres de France collection. This edition was published on 2 November 2006.
For readers of historical novels and stories set in the rural world who appreciate the reconstruction of daily life of the era.
