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The State Councilor, former Secretary General of France Televisions and former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee, 52 years old, is crowned for his first historical novel Summer of the four kings (Plon). A consecration.
The old feather of Nicolas Sarkozy received the Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy Thursday for his novel Summer of the four kings (Plon). It is the first novel of this State Councilor, historian, author of several essays of which Scenes of everyday life at the Élysée. He is 52 years old. The other writers in the running were Alain Mabanckou, Gille Martin-Chauffier and Thomas B. Reverdy. The votes were tight, it is only in the third round that Camille Pascal won with 13 votes against 7 votes to Alain Mabanckou for Storks are immortal (Threshold) and two votes to Thomas B. Reverdy for Winter of discontent (Flammarion).
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Summer of the four kings is a historical novel that takes place during the summer of 1830, four kings have alternately occupied the throne of France: Charles X, Louis XIX, Henry V and Louis-Philippe. Relating events from the days of 27, 28 and 29 July called "Three Glorious" until the advent of the July Monarchy, this fresco starring actors, Talleyrand to the Duchess of Berry, who took part to the revolution of 1830. The literary Figaro, under the pen of Étienne de Montety, had distinguished this text out late August. "In this precise and elegant book, fed by the best sources, the historian's erudition yields him courteously to the brilliance of a writer who adopts a tone of memorialist with a troubling naturalness," he wrote.
A prestigious list of winners
Camille Pascal is still in the running for the Interallié prize, but traditionally the jury of this prize chaired by Philippe Tesson does not "duplicate" with other major awards of the fall. The Plon editions that had rarely been crowned have a smile. As for Camille Pascal he joins a prestigious list of awards including Patrick Modiano, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Michel Tournier, Jean d'Ormesson, Joseph Kessel, Albert Cohen, Patrick Besson, Franz Olivier Giesbert, Paule Constant, Frédéric Vitoux …
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