It is as difficult to penetrate into this fresco book as dense as a long story as it is to leave it once the charm has operated: such is the paradox of the
Téméraires,
whose success shows that the general public can still recognize this which is worth reading in terms of historical narrative.
Translated in several countries in Europe, this masterpiece by Belgian francophile Bart Van Loo, subtitled
When Burgundy defied Europe,
has already sold more than 170,000 copies!
His subject?
The improbable destiny of the Burgundians, a small Germanic people originating from the Scandinavian island of Bornholm who crossed the Rhine around 406 AD and settled in the vicinity of what would become Burgundy.
Their epic inspired
Wagner's
L'Anneau du Nibelung
, and it is this epic, which will end with the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, that this historian, literally possessed by his subject, tells us.
The Dukes of Burgundy were masters in the art of exhibiting their power through dazzling splendor
The author, who has read everything about this period, from Henri Pirenne to Le Goff
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