Aged 30, Jean-François Roseau is notably the author of
La Chute d'Icare
(Folio, 2018), a half-historical, half-romantic tale distinguished by the François-Mauriac prize of the French Academy, and of a satire on political life,
A French comedy
(Éditions de Fallois, 2018).
He has just published a remarkable novel,
La Jeune fille au chevreau
(Éditions de Fallois, 240 p., € 19).
"
Any election,
writes Balzac,
begins with a stir."
Far from the observation opening the first chapter of the
Deputy of Arcis
, one of the unfinished novels of
La Comédie humaine
, the vote which was held on Sunday, in Finistère, as in fifty-eight other departments, has an air of bonace after the stormy tumult of the last municipal elections.
Neither wind nor wave around the University of Quimper where are located the eight polling stations called to collect the votes of more than two thousand “big voters”.
The sky announces a day without a stir for Breton sailors.
The sun has dried the drizzle and the wind
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