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7497671The Poitiers Affairhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-poitiers-affair-9782378850562/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7102774/image.jpg?v=638818060978400000107107MXNGandhiInStock/Ebooks/<p>It was the end of May 1901. Reporters from all over France descended on the small city of Poitiers.</p><p>After receiving an anonymous tip, <strong>police discovered</strong> a <strong>52-year-old woman</strong>, <strong>emaciated</strong>, <strong>completely naked</strong>, making strange noises and uttering incomprehensible words and phrases, in a dark room with the window shutters nailed and locked shut, a room that happened to be in the <strong>very proper mansion of the widow of a former dean of the universitys prestigious Faculté des Lettres</strong>.</p><p>The woman was her daughter and was the sister of a former subprefect who lived just across the street.</p><p><strong>It was an unthinkable crime: a woman held captive in her home for twenty-five years.</strong> The scandal ripped through Poitiers and then all of France. It would dominate public discourse in the country until the trial was over.</p><p>This book is also about a man and a woman and all that kept them apart. One was <strong>Protestant</strong>, the other <strong>Catholic</strong>; one a <strong>liberal Républicain</strong>, the other from a <strong>conservative Royalist</strong> family; one with family ties to nobility, the other dedicated to helping the working man; one older and wiser, the other young and carefree. <strong>Everything was against them</strong>.</p><p>During the 19th century, France was struggling to stabilize its government, pitting those yearning for a true republic against those wanting a return to the monarchy. <strong>This young couple was caught in the eye of the storm, falling in love in spite of it all and suffering the consequences</strong>.</p><p>To understand what really happened, author Viviane Janouin-Benanti pored over the newspaper accounts of the scandal and read all of the court documents and witness testimonies.</p><p>Over a century has passed, but remnants of the deep divisions that fed the public scandal surrounding this case are still present any time the Poitiers Affair is mentioned.</p>...7119890The Poitiers Affair107107https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-poitiers-affair-9782378850562/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7102774/image.jpg?v=638818060978400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook2025Inglés