Revoir ma Normandie: La vraie histoire du bagnard Henri Audoux, published by Editions Corlet on January 19, 2024.
"France, after its defeat by Prussia and the fall of Napoleon III, has lost part of its territory. She is counting on her changing army to restore her honor. And on this winter morning in 1872, 21-year-old Henri Audoux leaves his family, his hometown of Pont-l?Évêque and his Normandy home to join his barracks.
But Henri, by nature a brawler, soon became a regular in the courts. When the young man is accused of theft, he has no idea of the chain of events that this will unleash and the misfortune that awaits him. Reprimands, punishments, imprisonment and finally the penal colony begin to punctuate his life.
A moving and eventful destiny, that of soldier Audoux, who is never short of ideas? Following desertion, escape and even identity theft, he managed to return to Normandy, where he felt he could live in peace.
Alas, a victim of his own temperament, poverty and alcohol, he struggles to overcome all this adversity and finally live the life he has longed for close to home. Will Henri Audoux be able to live out his days in peace in his home province?
This incredible story - both true and fictionalized - plunges the reader into the miseries of 19th-century country life, as well as the hell of the penal colony, first in North Africa and then in French Guiana."
In 2019, Alain Diblan published LES GRANDES MISERES - UNE FAMILLE NOMBREUSE EN NORMANDIE VERS 1900, a highly successful title.
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