François-Henri Soulié

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September 2, 2021
Historical Detective Novel
508 pages
130 × 190 mm
15,90 €
9782264078209
978-2-2640-7820-9
																François-Henri Soulié, Magnificat
																François-Henri Soulié, Magnificat

After Angelus, the continuation of this medieval road-movie!

Year 1177.
The viscountess Ermengarde reigns alone over the rich county of Narbonne. She maintains a refined court of which the young troubadour Guilhem de Malpas is the most brilliant jewel. Under her protection, he prepares a new kind of show : Le Jeu d’Adam.
While the Count of Toulouse dreams of taking over the county, the merchants of Narbonne hatch a plot to establish a Republic. As for the Church of Rome, it is looking for allies to eradicate the Cathar heresy.
Weakened by illness, Ermengarde felt threatened from all sides. She called upon her nephew, Aymeri de Lara, to succeed her during her lifetime. Shortly after his arrival at the castle, the future heir dies mysteriously as well as one of the actors of Adam’s Game.
Guilhem de Malpas soon discovers that the murders are the result of his efforts to solve the mystery.
Conjurations, betrayals and plots are the cogs in a merciless game whose outcome will be fatal for an entire society.

The author

François-Henri Soulié is a man of the theater with multiple hats: writer, actor, puppeteer, set designer, director and screenwriter. He received the Beaune Festival First Novel Award in 2016 for Il n’y a pas de passé simple, published by Éditions du Masque.
François-Henri Soulié is the author at 10/18 of a trilogy written four hands with Thierry Bourcy, which takes us on a journey through Europe in the early seventeenth century: Le songe de l’astronome, La conspiration du Globe and Ils ont tué Ravaillac.

Strong points

After the huge success of Angelus: more than 16 thousand copies sold, the return of François-Henri Soulié.

The first volume of this series is a double winner: Prix France Bleu—Grands Détectives and the Prix Historia in 2020.

Back with the same characters of Angelus a few years later.

The continuation of medieval investigations at the time of the Cathars.

The discovery of a historical female figure: the viscountess Ermengarde de Narbonne.

The world of the troubadours told under a new angle.

September 2, 2021
Historical Detective Novel
508 pages
130 × 190 mm
15,90 €
9782264078209
978-2-2640-7820-9