Les caprices d'un astre
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While visiting an apartment, real estate agent Xavier Lemercier finds a mysterious telescope that belonged to a famous astronomer. Through the instrument, he spots a woman behind a window, but doesn't dare approach her. Divorced and lonely, with his weekends with his young son as his only joy, he begins to fall in love with the stranger. Two hundred and fifty years earlier, Guillaume Le Gentil de la Galaisière, astronomer to Louis XV, set off for India to observe the exceptional passage of Venus across the Sun. Declared dead, he returned eleven years later, but without having been able to observe the eclipse. Between adventure story and philosophical tale about the quest for self, the trajectories of these two romantic men intersect and echo each other from the 21st to the 18th century.
Au hasard d'une visite d'appartement, Xavier Lemercier, agent immobilier, trouve un mystérieux télescope ayant appartenu à un célèbre astronome. Dans l'instrument, il cadre une femme derrière une fenêtre, mais il n'ose pas l'aborder. Divorcé et esseulé, avec pour seules joies ses week-ends avec son jeune fils, il commence à tomber amoureux de l'inconnue.Deux cent cinquante ans plus tôt, Guillaume Le Gentil de la Galaisière, astronome de Louis XV, partait vers les Indes pour observer l'exceptionnel passage de Vénus devant le Soleil. Déclaré mort, il revint pourtant onze ans plus tard, mais sans avoir pu observer l'éclipse.Entre le récit d'aventures et le conte philosophique sur la quête de soi, les trajectoires de ces deux hommes romantiques s'entrecroisent et se répondent du XXIᵉ au XVIIIᵉ siècle.
- Poids de l'article : 158 g
- Dimensions : 11 x 1.6 x 17.9 cm
While visiting an apartment, real estate agent Xavier Lemercier finds a mysterious telescope that belonged to a famous astronomer. Through the instrument, he spots a woman behind a window, but doesn't dare approach her. Divorced and lonely, with his weekends with his young son as his only joy, he begins to fall in love with the stranger. Two hundred and fifty years earlier, Guillaume Le Gentil de la Galaisière, astronomer to Louis XV, set off for India to observe the exceptional passage of Venus across the Sun. Declared dead, he returned eleven years later, but without having been able to observe the eclipse. Between adventure story and philosophical tale about the quest for self, the trajectories of these two romantic men intersect and echo each other from the 21st to the 18th century.
Au hasard d'une visite d'appartement, Xavier Lemercier, agent immobilier, trouve un mystérieux télescope ayant appartenu à un célèbre astronome. Dans l'instrument, il cadre une femme derrière une fenêtre, mais il n'ose pas l'aborder. Divorcé et esseulé, avec pour seules joies ses week-ends avec son jeune fils, il commence à tomber amoureux de l'inconnue.Deux cent cinquante ans plus tôt, Guillaume Le Gentil de la Galaisière, astronome de Louis XV, partait vers les Indes pour observer l'exceptionnel passage de Vénus devant le Soleil. Déclaré mort, il revint pourtant onze ans plus tard, mais sans avoir pu observer l'éclipse.Entre le récit d'aventures et le conte philosophique sur la quête de soi, les trajectoires de ces deux hommes romantiques s'entrecroisent et se répondent du XXIᵉ au XVIIIᵉ siècle.
- Poids de l'article : 158 g
- Dimensions : 11 x 1.6 x 17.9 cm
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