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Samuel de Saint-Michel, a not very practicing Huguenot, is second lieutenant of a company of dragoons. In this year 1764, if he patrols with his men in the north of the Cévennes, it is not to persecute the Camisards, as in the time of the dragonnades. No, it is to track down... the Beast. An enormous and cunning animal, lively and unpredictable, which devours the little shepherds in the meadows of Gévaudan.
Is it a gigantic wolf? A hyena? A monster resulting from unnatural crossbreeding? No one knows.
But Samuel is not discouraged. Neither his incandescent encounter with Jennifer, the sublime and dangerous favorite of Baron de Morangiès, nor the amorous impulses of the sweet Françoise, whom the dragon saved from the clutches of the Beast with her children, will distract him from his mission. He thinks he has finally understood who protects and directs the monster. A discovery that could be fatal to him.
After La Belle et le Camisard (TDO, 2021), Bernard Mahoux continues to paint a portrait of the last century of the Ancien Régime, with its beliefs, its excesses, its privileges, its taste for adventure. And he does so with rare erudition, served by a perfectly mastered style. Sous le regard de la Bête is a reference work on the 18th century and on the curse of Gévaudan.
Bernard Mahoux, an Albigeois, worked for a long time at the Ministry of the Environment, at the regional office of Toulouse. Seconded for several years to the Haut-Languedoc Regional Natural Park, in Saint-Pons (Hérault), he undertook to revive in a large fresco the History of the South, through the destiny of the Trencavel, Viscounts of Albi, Carcassonne and Béziers, heroes of the crusade against the Albigeois.
Back in Toulouse, Bernard Mahoux has been working for several years at the Ministry of Culture. Integrated into the Departmental Service of Architecture and Heritage of Haute-Garonne, he is responsible for the protection of the surroundings of historic monuments and sites.
On this occasion, he published historical works rooted in the Midi-Toulousain, including La faussaire de Saint-Sulpice, published by Éditions du Sémaphore, a novel set during the Hundred Years' War, which won the 2001 novel prize from the Académie des Arts, Lettres et Sciences du Languedoc.
The author lives in the countryside in Saint-Sulpice (81), in a country house on the banks of the Tarn, surrounded by horses to which he devotes his leisure time with his wife Dominique, who has a real passion for them.
A difficult experience, that of horse riding, which he recounts with humor and tenderness in "My horse, my wife and me", published by Editions du Rocher (Paris) in 2006.
(Source : www.auberon.fr)
