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The Good Men

In fourteenth-century France, a young woman from the mountain village of Montaillou was tried for heresy by the Catholic inquisition. Her name was Grazida Lizier and, by her own confession, her "joy was shared" with the wrong man: the village rector.

Genre
historical fiction
Themes
religion
Setting
14th centuryfrance
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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