
The Abyssinian: A Novel
Histoire (romans)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
In 1699, Louis XIV sent an embassy to the King of Abyssinia, hoping to lure that country, nominally Christian for centuries, into the political and religious orbit of France. Jean-Baptiste Poncet, gifted apothecary/physician to the pashas of Cairo, is the… hero of this romantic epic embroidering up the known details of that long-forgotten embassy. 1999. Uniform title: Abyssin.