Frederic Lenormand

Frederic Lenormand is a novelist French born with Paris (IVe district) the September 5th 1964. Frederic Lenormand is wire of a professor of Mathématiques to the Université of Paris VIII and of a direct mother of the information center of the Family planning. After a vat of languages in 1982 (he speaks Russian, English and Italian), he enters to the Institut of political studies of Paris then to the Sorbonne.

It is caught up with soon by the writing, him which, as of the twelve years age, affirmed that it “would nourish its feather”. With Madrid, in 1988, it writes five novels back-to-back in order to determine its literary possibilities. One of them, the dream of Ursule , inspired by the cycle of Carpaccio preserved at the museum of the Academy, is worth the price to him Del Duca of the young novelist.

In 1989, the amount of the price out of pocket, it will live with New York, where it writes to the amateurs of literature , published on its return by the Robert-Laffont editions under the title the insane ones of Guernesey .

At the beginning of the Years 1990, it takes down a great number of prices, purses and encouragements various, of which prestigious Bourse of the Young Novelist of the Foundation Hatchet (today Fondation Lagardere), the Thyde-Monnier Price of the Company of People of Letres, the purse Villa Médicis Out the Walls and the François-Mauriac Price of the French Academy.

After a succession of historical novels, it specializes in the 18th century, then in the Révolution, then in the Terreur, then in the private hospitals transformed into prisons at that time. This course culminates with the publication at Fayard of two purely historical works tackling subjects ever covered, the pension Belhomme , on the prisoners of this lunatic asylum, and Twelve tyrants tiny , on the police officers who locked up them there.

Judging that it is being locked up in a tiny field which interests not enough world, it decides to change its rifle of shoulder and gives one following the Chinese novels of Robert van Gulik, deceased in 1967. It will be the new investigations of the Juge Ti .

He is in parallel the author of accounts for the children, of which the cycle of the orphan of the Bastille , which allows him épancher its passion for the Revolution.

Novels

the insane ones of Guernesey , on the exile of Victor Hugo in the Anglo-Norman islands.
the Friend of mankind , on Molière Business - Crow.
the Odyssey of Abounaparti , on the scientists who took part in the Campagne of Egypt.
Miss Chon of Barry , on the sister-in-law of the favorite last, Madam of Barry.
the wandering princesses , on the wandering of Mesdames de France, Mrs Adélaïde and Mrs Victoire, the aunts of Louis XVI, under the revolution.
the young girl and the philosopher , on a pupil of Voltaire, Miss Corneille, founded on a historical anecdote. In 1761, Voltaire, taken refuge with Ferney, collects downward Pierre Corneille fallen in misery, and educates it according to its philosophical principles, with the intention to make of it the perfect young girl of the Lights.
a beautiful prisoner , on a forgery Louis XVII with Châlons-in-Champagne, under the Directory.
the orphan of the Bastille

New investigations of the Judge Ti

the castle of the lake Tchou-year
the night of the judges
Petits murder between monks
the palate of the courtesans
Mrs Ti carries out the survey
Mort of a Chinese cook
the delicate art of mourning
Mort of a Master of Go

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