Cœur

When his ailing father urges him to write about their ancestor Louis, a hussar captain cut down in a cavalry charge in 1914, Thibault de Montaigu doesn't yet know what family secret lies behind this heroic death. Nor why it resonates strangely with the fate of his own father, who is declining day by day. The race against time he then undertakes to trace the past turns into a moving investigation, featuring a succession of Proustian characters and war widows, flamboyant lovers and neglected wives.

Thibault de Montaigu tells us the story of a lineage haunted by glory and honor. But also what remains of love and courage hidden in the hearts of men.