by Patrick Besson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213625843
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«Saint-Sépulcre !» is a historical novel by Patrick Besson, published by Fayard in paperback in 2005 (285 pages, in French).
In thirteenth-century Paris, an old poet-minstrel and his young friend fall in love with the same Palestinian prostitute in a brothel. Meanwhile, Louis IX is preparing a new crusade from his palace. The novel also follows an errant knight through Péronne, Cyprus, Aigues-Mortes and Constantinople, and evokes the conquest of Jerusalem a century and a half earlier.
For readers interested in the historical novel, the Crusades and contemporary French fiction.
Patrick Besson is a French writer and journalist.
