After recovering from grave wounds suffered in the Great War, Bogey Lambert, a young cowboy from Colorado, makes his way to 1920s Paris, where he encounters the beautiful painter, Chrysis Jungbluth. Precocious, passionate, talented, the free-spirited Chrysis rebels against a society and an art world in which men have all the privilege and women none. By day, a serious student at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, at night Chrysis loses herself to the sensual pleasures of the Montparnasse nightlife, where all seems permissible. There, she and the American cowboy will live the love of a lifetime."

Souvenir de l'amour - Chrysis

Une fresque familiale à travers un siècle et trois continents Lake Forest, Illinois. À 96 ans, la vieille dame à laquelle Jim Fergus rend visite semble bien inoffensive... Renée de Fontarce McCormick, sa grand-mère, est pourtant une femme de tête, au caractère entier, qui a connu un destin hors du commun.

 De son aristocratique France natale aux rives du Nouveau Monde en passant par les sables d'Égypte, Jim Fergus retrace son parcours et voit petit à petit apparaître le visage de sa propre mère, Marie-Blanche.

Marie Blanche

Six années de périples par monts et par vaux à travers les Etats-Unis. Voici le récit de Jim Fergus. De la beauté grandiose et désolée des paysages de l'Utah aux terres sauvages du Nebraska, en passant par quelques savoureux récits de pêche à la mouche dans les rivières de l'Ouest, il évoque une Amérique à la fois mythique et terriblement concrète. Célébrant ainsi la nature, la pêche, la chasse, les animaux, sauvages ou domestiques, mais aussi l'amitié, la culture indienne ou encore la cuisine, il nous livre les secrets d'un véritable art de vivre.

Mon Amérique - Occasion

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.

Mille Femmes Blanches: Les Carnets de May Dodd

En 1874, à Washington, le président américain Grant accepte dans le plus grand secret la proposition incroyable du chef indien Little Wolf: troquer mille femmes blanches contre chevaux et bisons pour favoriser l'intégration du périple indien. Si quelques femmes se portent volontaires, la plupart des "Mille femmes" viennent en réalité des pénitenciers et des asiles de tous les États-Unis d'Amérique... Parvenue dans les contrées reculées du Nebraska, l'une d'entre elles, May Dodd, apprend alors sa nouvelle vie de squaw et les rites inconnus des Indiens. Mariée à un puissant guerrier, elle découvre les combats violents entre tribus et les ravages provoqués par l'alcool. Aux côtés de femmes de toutes origines, May Dodd assiste alors à la lente agonie de soi, peuple d'adoption...

Mille Femmes Blanches

Mille Femmes blanches : les carnets de May Dodd

The stunning sequel to the awarding winning novel One Thousand White Women9 March 1876My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother’s vengeance...So begins the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for One Thousand White Women to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses. These "brides" were mostly fallen women; women in prison, prostitutes, the occasional adventurer, or those incarcerated in asylums. No one expected this program to work. The brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many of them fell in love with the Cheyennes spouses and had children with them...and became Cheyenne themselves. THE VENGEANCE OF MOTHERS is a novel that explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable." What does it mean to be white, to be Cheyenne, and how far will these women go to avenge the ones they love? As he did in ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN, Jim Fergus brings to light a time and place in American history, and fills it with unforgettable characters who live and breathe with a passion we can relate to even today.

Souvenir de l'amour - Chrysis

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