La demeure de l'ambition

de Jacques Résal, Pierre Allorant

"If the way of life of the bourgeois families has attracted the attention of historians, the originality is here to seize the rise of a line of doctors and engineers from the Morvan in the nineteenth century. From an exceptional corpus of women's letters, a mirror is tended to the ambition of these women who bear the academic, intellectual and professional ambition of their husbands, sons and brothers, while assuming the management of the home." --Translated from back cover