Small precision: it was my first Ruffin ... Conclusion: it made me want to read more. Indeed, this is a novel that kept me awake for both adventure story for the historical picture and the interior monologue of Jacques Coeur. This period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, is exciting, and is symbolized in the book by the character of Jacques Coeur: modernization of the state, appearance of a "proto-nation" France, explosion exchanges commercial and cultural Europe, tipping the foreign policy of England to Italy, etc ... And the personality of Jacques Coeur, his feelings, his emotions, his sensitivity; are certainly romanticized, but they serve the story so that we can forgive the author for taking this vis-à-vis freedom of history. In addition, all events are excates, according to the postscript.