The French writer Amélie de Bourbon Parma will be today, Friday, June 23 at 6 p.m., the guest of the Mille Feuille bookstore at La Marsa.
She will present and dedicate her latest novel, the first of a trilogy to be published, by Gallimard editions. Amélie de Bourbon Parma wrote this novel in Tunisia where she currently resides.
A renowned author of historical novels, Amélie de Bourbon Parma lives in Tunisia where she wrote her last work, published by Gallimard editions, June 8.
Entitled “Ambition”, this novel is the first part of the trilogy “The traffickers of eternity”.
This book of five hundred pages can be read in one go, projecting the reader into the fifteenth century Rome, in the heart of the Renaissance. The novel follows in the footsteps of Alessandro Farnese, a young provincial aristocrat promised to an ecclesiastical career.
Between Florence and Rome, in the midst of intrigues and conciliabules, the young Alessandro manages to impose himself against the backdrop of a formidable humanist, artistic and political effervescence. Having reached the top of the church and Europe, he will go to his destiny from which Amélie de Bourbon Parme traces the meanders.
The author brushes in this first volume of her upcoming trilogy, the romantic and intimate portrait of the only church man, founder of a dynasty from which she descends.
Historian, Amélie de Bourbon Parma, respecting the historical tradition, draws a deeply inspired portrait and restores the dazzling destiny of her ancestor, in the wake of the famous Stendhalian novel “The Chartreuse of Parma”.
She is also the author of several works, the first of which, published in 2001 at Gallimard, is entitled “The coronation of Louis XVII”. With her novel “Le Secret de l’Emperor”, she obtained in 2015, the prize for the historic novel of the city of Blois and also the Marguerite Puhl-Demange Prize.
Amélie de Bourbon Parma also published in 2019 by Éditions de l’Archipel, a work entitled “Amazing stories from the History of France”.
The meeting planned today at the Mille Feuilles bookstore will be an opportunity for Amélie de Bourbon Parma to present her novelist’s approach to history, her relationships with Tunisia where she chose to write this last novel and her own literary genealogies.
