It's a story of blood, sex and tears.
A
Game of Thrones
saga
,
except that it is real and not fictitious: this is its strength.
Nothing is lacking in this breathtaking epic: paladins and damsels, behourds and tournaments, banquets and feasts, troubadours and minstrels, courtiers and intriguers, cloisters and vines, battles and massacres, constables and mercenaries, torture and torture, arranged hymens and calculated alliances ... To narrate the fabulous gesture of the Dukes of Burgundy, who made Europe tremble in the 14th and 15th centuries, governing a territory stretching from Mâcon to Antwerp, you needed a learned and inspired guide like Bart Van Loo, a Dutch-speaking Belgian writer but Francophile , who signs a masterful work:
Les Téméraires
.
When Burgundy challenged Europe
.
200,000 copies sold for this bestseller, finally translated into French (1).
A blind spot in our history
Perfectly bilingual and married to a Burgundian, our cicerone is a superstar in his homeland.
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