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Jean-Christophe Viseur

Author of Le Registre des Ombres

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Jean-Christophe Viseur is the author of Le Registre des Ombres. His novel brings together an investigation, the workings of power and characters confronted with what they leave unsaid. Historical context emerges through action and everyday life, serving a plot set in Languedoc in 1786.

Literary world
History, secrets and lives shaped by fate.
Setting
Eighteenth-century Languedoc.

Le Registre des Ombres — Volume I will be published in French and English. The publication date of the English edition is to be confirmed. The English extract is a sample translation prepared for this website.

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Historical thriller

Le Registre des Ombres · Volume I Historical fiction

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1786. Toulouse and the Pyrenees. Adrien de Veyrac, a viscount and administrator in Montclar, discovers an anomaly in the accounts of an old charitable institution: Saint-Lazare has been closed for four years, yet it is still spending money.

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Le Registre des Ombres — Volume I will be published in French and English. The publication date of the English edition is to be confirmed. The English extract is a sample translation prepared for this website.

In this extract, livres and sols are units of historical French currency.

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Le Registre des Ombres · Jean-Christophe Viseur

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