Abbés, édition originale

FIRST EDITION. One of 70 numbered copies on Rivoli, the only large paper.

"Three stories are interwoven, three generations of abbots. Eble, former bishop of Limoges, establishes the abbey. In the strange people of the salt mines, whom he summons to work, there is a woman. She will be his passion - but also the loss of another monk. This is the cause of the old abbot's nagging remorse. Already, however, time moves on, so slow for such short lives, and this is the second adventure: that of a prodigious boar, a pagan beast, whose crib becomes a holy place. The hunt for the pig soon gives rise to a jealousy of love that gives the chronicle the look of a cruel tale. One can never be too wary of an old Celtic boar... although time once again covers it. A third and last chronicle rises from the silence. It tells of the discovery of a relic - not just any relic: the skull of St. John the Baptist, decapitated for Salome. This relic will be fatal to the third abbot. He will experience a disappointment even more terrible than the worst disappointment of love" Jean-Maurice de Montremy (Livres hebdo, September 20, 2002).