by Françoise Bourdon · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258134034
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«Les Bateliers du Rhône» is the rural-set novel by Françoise Bourdon, published by Presses de la Cité in paperback (282 pages, in French).
In 1830, the boatman Jérôme Sénéchal disappears with his barges on the Rhône. Manon, his wife, and Antoine, his son, are left ruined, but she refuses to give up and starts a new life in Caderousse. Fates cross between the penal colony of Toulon and the vineyards of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, in an era that singled out rebellious women.
The novel was published on 10 November 2016 in the Terres de France collection.
Aimed at readers of regional novels and literary fiction with a strong sense of place, interested in rural nineteenth-century France.
