Grand café Martinique
L'aventure ne fait que commencer. Clieu doit retourner à la Martinique : il affrète un bateau, recrute un équipage, y embarque son butin et des voyageurs ... Début d'une longue traversée périlleuse, odyssée émaillée d'embûches tragi-comiques – attaque de pirates, calme plat, ouragan, manque d'eau, tentative de mutinerie...
Péripéties, rebondissements et surprises émaillent le roman de Raphaël Confiant dont la plume alerte retrace la rocambolesque et véridique histoire du café, des origines à nos jours...
- Littérature générale
- Paru le 03/01/2020
- Genre : Littérature française
- 320 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715249677
- ISBN : 9782715249677
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1702, the young Gabriel-Mathieu d'Erchigny de Clieu, from Normandy, is barely fifteen years old. Once he obtains his ship's ensign stripes, he finds himself immediately sent to Martinique. Following Christopher Columbus’s footsteps, his dream of America becomes a reality. He grows sugar cane, which quickly provides him with a nice fortune, a wife, and a prosperous plantation. In 1720, he returns to France with a new idea in mind: to grow coffee in the West Indies. This new beverage is terribly fashionable in all European courts, but the French buy it from producing countries at a very high price. However, the Jardin Royal des Plantes keeps some coffee plants under close surveillance. Luck brings Clieu into contact with the niece of Louis XV's personal doctor (Mr. de Chirac has unlimited access to the garden), and who, for her beautiful eyes, steals two precious plants! The adventure has only just begun....
Born in 1951 in Martinique, writer of many novels, essays and poems, Raphaël Confiant is one of the leader of the Creolity literary movement. He is the author of Madame Saint-Clair, reine de Harlem (translated in Italian language at Stampa Alternativa and in English language at Dialogos Books).
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