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In 1915 the futures of the Schoudler and La Monnerie families are joined with the marriage of François and Jacqueline. The children of this union will be called upon to shape France’s future; however, events seem to want to contradict the call of destiny. Old disagreements, confrontations between the families, ruthless fighting for money and power, and the tragedies that all these things provoke allow for ambitious people to occupy positions of privilege from which they were previously excluded. En 1915 los destinos de las familias Schoudler y La Monnerie se unen con el matrimonio de François y Jacqueline. Los hijos de esta unión están llamados a regir el futuro de Francia; sin embargo, los acontecimientos parecen querer contradecir la llamada del destino. Las viejas rencillas, los enfrentamientos entre familias, las luchas despiadadas por el dinero y el poder y las tragedias que éstas provocan permiten que personajes cargados de ambición ocupen posiciones de privilegio que hasta entonces les estaban vedadas.
Author
Maurice Druon was born in Paris. He is the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he wrote the Chant des Partisans, which, with music composed by Anna Marly, was used as an anthem by the French Resistance during the Second World War. In 1948 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Les grandes familles. On December 8, 1966, he was elected to the 30th seat of the Académie française, succeeding Georges Duhamel. While his scholarly writing earned him a seat at the Académie, he is best known for a series of seven historical novels published in the 1950s under the title Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings). He was Minister of Cultural Affairs in 1973 and 1974 in Pierre Messmer's cabinet, and a deputy of Paris from 1978 to 1981. Source: Wikipedia
