Author: Frédéric Andréi

Format: Import

Release Date: 20-10-2009

Details: We are in the 13th century, at the time of Saint-Louis, in a family of Parisian merchants… The dark periods of invasions of past centuries are followed by an inner peace and a need for a greater sweetness of life. We attach ourselves to the life of the women of this family at a time when many factors converge to give women a privileged status, almost complete equality with men; they vote, manage their property, exercise numerous professions. around Mathilde, her mother, also tempted, but strengthened by her faith, family, friends, festivals and customs of the time. In the second part, located eleven years later, it is Marie, youngest daughter des Brunel, illuminator by profession, widow and mother of two young children, who is the center of the action. Torn between her maternal love and her attraction for Côme Perrin, master haberdasher, who becomes her lover, she finds herself to the intrigues of the Lombards who hold the secret of her husband's unexplained death. Under the gaze of a child, Aude, Marie's own daughter, fascinated by the awakening of the passion she discovers through the tribulations of a young couple, Agnès and Thomas, then begin the “game of temptation”; greed, lust, vice, violence, despair, death and even holiness and martyrdom. In the years at the end of this century, still peaceful for the kingdom, the fate of the Brunets foreshadowed the misfortunes that would tear France apart in the 14th century. century and those who will once again relegate women to the shadow of men. It will be necessary to wait until the 20th century for them to finally find the freedoms they enjoyed in those medieval centuries.

UPC: 829381604634

EAN: 0829381604634

Languages: french

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: Used Good