Author: Jules Michelet

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• Hilary Mantel (1)
  • IN: A Place of Greater Safety (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Louis XV is named the Well-Beloved. Ten years pass. The same people believe the Well-Beloved takes baths of human blood... Avoiding Paris, ever shut up at Versailles, he finds even there too many people, too much daylight. He wants a shadowy retreat... In a year of scarcity (they are not uncommon then) he was hunting as usual in the Forest of Senart. He met a peasant carrying a bier and inquired, "Whither he was conveying it?" "To such a place." "For a man or a woman?" "A man." "What did he die of?" "Hunger."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Carlos Fuentes (2)
  • IN: Laura (1965) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: El hombre caza y lucha. La mujer intriga y sueña; es la madre de la fantasia, de los dioses. Posee la segunda visión, las alas que la permiten volar hacia el infinito del deseo y de la imaginación... Los dioses son como los hombres: nacen y mueren sobre el pecho de una mujer...
    FROM: La Sorcière, (1862), Book, France