There is a country cradled by the Valley of the Isle, that of Saint-Astier, where the small story joins the big one. From Louis XIV to the Revolution, Françoise Bourreau-Raluy has found, in the archives, traces of those who are not mentioned in history books…
Whether noble or peasant, commoner or bourgeois, lay or canon, young or old, male or female, all lived between 1670 and 1799.
Françoise Bourreau-Raluy brings them back to life in this work which required 5 years of research in the departmental archives.
Montrem, Saint-Léon-sur-l’Isle, Saint-Aquilin… Who are these witnesses of these times crossed by various troubles?…
– © Editions Les Livres de l’Ilot
“Chronicles of the country of Saint-Astier” just published in Editions The Books of the Island.