REPOSE PUCELLE JOURNAL DE JEHAN GUITON by Isabelle LAMBERT -

REPOSE PUCELLE JOURNAL DE JEHAN GUITON by Isabelle LAMBERT - Preface by Michel Crépeaux (Mayor of La Rochelle) - Edition Le Croît Vif Testimony Collection - 1997 - The bell of the Maison de l’Échevinage solemnly rings its eleven strokes, and the Cougnes gate opens to King Louis XIII. Besieged La Rochelle, mourning La Rochelle, La Rochelle abandoned by the English and populated by ghosts defeated by famine, La Rochelle exhausted has just surrendered. Bowing to Richelieu, it pays dearly for its loyalty to the Calvinist dogma and its dream of an independent city, while Jehan Guiton, its exiled mayor, finds refuge in his nearby fief of Repose-Pucelle…. Repose pucelle journal de jehan Guiton, is a testimonial book. Established from the diaries, chronicles, gazettes, and notary minutes of La Rochelle and enriched by rich and precise historical sources. The book is much more than a simple biography. Thanks to the subjectivity allowed by the novel, its author manages to meticulously reconstruct the psychology of his hero and, from it, recreate his environment. A superb exercise in comprehensive history, starting from the inside of a character, this book is part of the great tradition of recomposed memoirs, often more authentic than the real ones.