Le Souffle des quatre vents, the last novel by Gilles Leclerc in Dieppe

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We knew him with his key characters Ange Galli and Gabriel d’Esneval. With the first, he took the reader into detective stories, with the second, he plunged him into the heart of the French Revolution. After an absence of four years, Gilles Leclercthis writing enthusiast from the Dieppe region (Seine-Maritime), returns with Dr. Martin de Beauvallon.

The Breath of the Four Winds by Gilles Leclerc

“I just came out The Breath of the Four Winds », smiles the novelist, delighted to see this project which was so close to his heart come to fruition.

After significant research to establish the setting and the intrigue of this new opus, he offers the reader go back in timeuntil the beginning of the 19^e century.

A new association created

And above all to take a seat on board La Cocardière, a prestigious three-masted ship, alongside Dr Martin de Beauvallon. He decided to head for the African coast from the port of Le Havre. Its objective: “To deepen your knowledge of traditional medicines and perfect your skills as a naturalist”, underlines the author. Only destiny will get involved, it is not in Africa that he will land…

Pour edit this new novelValérie Lemaître-Leclerc, the wife of Gilles Leclerc, created the Val Éditions association. Indeed, the novelist had already embarked on this adventure by creating Esneval Édition around ten years ago. “I edited around fifteen authors, or around thirty books,” he remembers. But the health crisis happened and his publishing house had to be liquidated.

It is therefore a new page which is turning for Gilles Leclerc with this new romantic adventure.

The Breath of the Four Winds at Val Éditions at the price of €19.50. Signing sessions are scheduled for this Friday, November 29, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Belvédère gallery in Dieppe; Sunday 1^is December all day at the Varengeville-sur-Mer Christmas market and Saturday December 7 from 10 a.m. at the Leclerc center in Martin-Église. You can also obtain the novel directly from Val Éditions by contacting them by email: [email protected].

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