by Christian Signol · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226168085
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«Les Messieurs de Grandval» is a historical novel by Christian Signol, published by Albin Michel in paperback in 2005 (374 pages, in French).
The novel follows the Grandval family from the mid-19th century to the early 20th in a small foundry in Périgord, near Limousin. Fabien, the eldest son, is destined to succeed his father as master of the forge; his story intertwines with forbidden loves, class differences, and the end of a rural world facing industrialisation.
The work is the first instalment of a two-book saga; the second volume is «Les Dames de la Ferrière».
It is aimed at readers of historical fiction and family sagas set in rural France of the 19th and 20th centuries.
