I found this book while listening Gérard Collard in his presentation "the blow of heart booksellers" on a television channel. And I must say that it was praise of the novel is quite true. For me, this is the story of the year romance! Gaëlle Nohant, immerses us in Paris in May 1897, where the spectacular burning of the Charity Bazaar, will leave an indelible mark in the history of Paris, but also in this bourgeois society to the codes described so well that you can not deny importance name, descent, marriage, birth, and power. For if we dig deep in this high society, one realizes that the woman even though she had to make a good marriage and name, has an extraordinary power over her husband and dominates its future in its own way . Without work, these women gooders like the Duchess of Alencon, contribute in their own way and for some natural way to give freely and without fear, their playing time and their influences for the company called the people Do not be left behind. Of course, these few benevolent women will not change the condition of this Parisian French people but they will participate in a way that is honorable, for some, to help them. Above all, and we must not forget that a TB epidemic falls on the same people, at that very moment. They will have the courage to face this epidemic devastating as they had the courage to face the flames. Some do not appear in modern, others become aware of their circumstances, their powers and dare as Mrs De Raezal get to center stage and out of their lethargy social condition that requires them to finally become, express and take over from those who have left their souls perished in the fire for specified reasons or because they could not get out of these flames. Determine, yes they will, and they will ensure that the power does not destroy some families of pure souls, misunderstood by their relatives as that of Constance Estingel. They will be the way of truth and restore it by creating awareness as Laszlo Nerac, that life does not stop but rather continue to fight the sometimes cruel and false statements, disclose in thirsty women power and whose social condition allows. Both history novel (kidnapping, duel, devotion ...), life lessons, courage and strength of borrowing by gender, which is valued, this serious novel and full of emotions, is a pure marvel when you let us close the doubtful and perplexed when our next reading. This novel is excellent and beautifully written. Its author sign there, a masterpiece that after four years of writing, set forms, research and others, we totally permeates. We live through these characters and lines, the history of the fire, the lives of these women ....
