Associate of letters and honorary lecturer, novelist
and essayist, Jean-Michel Delacomptée is the author of numerous landmark literary portraits, in particular of Montaigne, La Boétie, Racine, Bossuet and Saint-Simon, often published in the prestigious collection “The One and the Other By J.-B. Pontalis at Gallimard. He recently published La Bruyère, portrait of ourselves (Robert Laffont, 2019, 216 p., € 18), hailed by critics.
He is also the author of Ambroise Paré - La Main savante (Gallimard), a literary portrait of the father of modern surgery.
On Tuesday June 13, 1564, the young King Charles IX accompanied by his mother Catherine de Médicis entered Lyon, which was plagued by the plague. We died everywhere, in the streets as at home. The cemeteries were full of dead and dying people piled up together. The gravediggers, dressed in yellow, threw the corpses into the Rhône. According to the historian Claude de Rubys (1533-1613), the plague in Lyon caused 60,000 deaths. Figure
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