Xavier Patier has published more than twenty-five novels, short stories and essays, such
Soon we will be nothing more
(La Table Ronde, 1994), Jacques-Chardonne prize, and
Le Silence des termites
(La Table Ronde, 2008), Roger prize -Nimier.
Last book published:
Demain la France.
Tombs of Mauriac, Michelet, de Gaulle
(Le Cerf, 2020), Catholic Grand Prize for Literature
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What did the France of the Directory look like when, weary of crises and party intrigues, it prepared to give itself up to the genius of a soldier, for better or for worse?
How does this France of 1799 say something to today's France?
In Messidor year VII, that is to say in July 1799, France was not as beautiful as Victor Hugo could have written.
It offered a strange and familiar sight.
Public opinion, after ten years of confusion, violence and instability, had recovered from everything.
The peasants no longer wanted to vote, considering that in any case, the government
"breaks the choices made"
, to resume...
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