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La marchande d'oublies
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This story takes place at the end of the 19th century, in the circus, at fairs, in freak shows. A family of clown-acrobats, the Helquins—four brothers and their sister Thalia—put on macabre and disturbing performances. The youngest, the most gifted and the most violent, loses his mind and disappears. Meanwhile, Charles, a psychiatrist, falls under the spell of the younger sister and runs away with her. This novel draws on the era's fascination with the dark side of English clown shows, but also on the development of psychiatry in the 1850s-1880s. Pierre Jourde plays with the reader like a tightrope walker before his audience, offering a spectacular novel, astonishing in its scope and virtuosity. But why "the woman of forgotten things"? The text provides the answer
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