- Summary
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Why was Adèle reviled for thirty years by her peers, rural bourgeois in the 19th century, and then suddenly became a subject of fascination? An imaginary conversation in the summer of 1899 reveals her biography, documented thanks to an in-depth study of abundant archives and some ten thousand letters, mostly written in Arlay, a village in the Jura vineyards, which form the basis of an historical thesis, published by PUFC in 2023.
The epistolary exchanges, in which the dominant role of bourgeois women in the countryside emerges, ignored and silenced by the French administration of the 19th century, but forming the basis of this historical novel.
- Contents
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Préambule
Une bourgeoise au village
La mise au ban
L’héritage
La dépossession
Postface
Notes de fin
- Author (s)
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Olivier BORGEAUDAfter studying at the ESSEC and Bocconi business schools, Olivier Borgeaud embarked on a European cultural career in 1991: in Berlin, then London as cultural attaché, in Turin for a contemporary art foundation, and in Paris for a centre for art and science. Captivated by the family archives of the Jura region, he completed his doctorate in history in 2021, which he published with PUFC under the title "La Bourgeoisie rurale dans le vignoble du Jura au XIXe siècle" ("The rural bourgeoisie in the Jura vineyards in the 19th century").
- Readership
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Academic and general public
