by Gonzague Saint Bris · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246666516
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«L'enfant de Vinci» is the initiatory novel by Gonzague Saint Bris, published by Grasset in paperback (407 pages, in French).
On his thirteenth birthday, Arthur receives a strange privilege: to sleep in the bed where Leonardo da Vinci slept in the family castle. In that house, historical figures speak to the sleeping boy and open the doors of mystery to him. Arthur contacts Leonardo's spirit in an intrigue about the missing Codex and the «Joconde nue».
It is the sequel to the novel «Les Vieillards de Brighton» by Gonzague Saint Bris and originally appeared in 2005.
For readers of historical and initiatory fiction interested in mystery and the figure of Leonardo da Vinci.
Gonzague Saint Bris was an award-winning French novelist, biographer, and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for Les Vieillards de Brighton. He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. He was also a juror for the prix Contrepoint, a French literary award. With his family, he was a co-proprietor of Clos Lucé.
