François Garde, memento Murat (Rediffusion)

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Portrait of François Garde, writer, author of "Breaking King", published by Gallimard. © Francesca Mantovani Gallimard Editions

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

“King by breaking and entering”, by François Garde immerses us in the middle of the Napoleonic period, in the footsteps of an incredible destiny, that of the ascent of an innkeeper's son who became Marshal of the Empire and his fall.

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He is a great connoisseur of distant lands. Former administrator of TAAF, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, François Garde is certainly a magistrate and a senior civil servant, he is also a writer and traveling writer. He crossed the Kerguelen on foot, he told a story, Walking in Kerguelen . He who was secretary general of the government in New Caledonia, he also took us to the heart of the Pacific, in his novel What happened to the white savage , Goncourt from the 1st novel in 2012. And here he goes up the course of history and which makes Murat the hero of his new novel King by breaking and entering , published by Gallimard.

Replay of the October 30, 2019 broadcast.

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