by Gilbert Bordes · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266047159
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«Le roi en son moulin» is a historical novel by Gilbert Bordes, published by Pocket in paperback (250 pages, in French).
Set in Plumozelle, Corrèze, after the First World War, it tells of the return of Jean Charias, nicknamed the Red, a peasant who comes back unharmed from the front. Baptiste Simoneau, a miller who has lost both his sons, offers him his daughter Pauline to secure the lineage and the future of the mill. The novel portrays post-war French rural life and the slow conversion of a countryman into a miller.
For readers of historical fiction interested in rural France and the aftermath of the First World War in small communities.
