by Marie Seurat · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253139584
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«Mon royaume de vent» is a book of apocryphal memoirs by Marie Seurat, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (160 pages, in French).
The book reconstructs the life of the English aristocrat Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of William Pitt, who sets out for the East during the Napoleonic Wars. After Egypt, Greece and Turkey, she settles in Lebanon and embraces the mysticism of the Druze people. Marie Seurat evokes her through the letters and notes of her physician Meryon, as apocryphal memoirs.
The subtitle of the work is «Souvenirs de Hester Stanhope» and it was published in 1996 by Le Livre de Poche.
Suitable for readers interested in nineteenth-century history and in portraits of women who defied the conventions of their time.
