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La Duchesse sans nom: Fiction historique - Révolution française, héroïne forte, Terreur 1793
Paperback
Series: L'Héritage Des Montgorgé, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 11 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French
Paris, octobre 1789. Jeanne de Montgorgé a vingt-six ans, un titre, et rien d'autre. Son mari est mort. Sa fortune aussi. Ce qui lui reste: le nom - celui d'une noblesse que la Révolution est en train de décapiter.
Quand la foule prend d'assaut Versailles, Jeanne fuit. Elle abandonne la soie, les bijoux, l'alliance. Elle enfile une robe de laine grise et invente un nom: Jeanne Martin, couturière, veuve sans histoire. Elle entre dans Paris à pied, sans argent, sans adresse, sans personne.
Jeanne Martin survit à tout cela. Elle n'est pas héroïque. Elle est prudente, lucide, et capable d'un courage qu'elle ne reconnaît pas toujours comme tel. Elle apprend à coudre assez vite pour garder sa place. Elle apprend à parler assez juste pour ne pas être dénoncée. Elle apprend à regarder sans être vue - et parfois, quand les circonstances l'y obligent, à agir.
La Duchesse sans nom est un roman du double seuil: celui qu'on franchit quand on perd tout, et celui qu'on franchit quand on décide qui l'on devient ensuite. Dans le style des grands romanciers du XIXe siècle - la précision de Stendhal, le souffle de Dumas, l'ambiguïté morale de Balzac -, Jean-Baptiste Beauséjour reconstitue une Révolution vécue de l'intérieur, sans fard et sans nostalgie.
Pour les lecteurs de fiction historique française, de romans sur la Révolution, et d'histoires de femmes qui traversent des époques impossibles.
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