“Le Vent de Galerne ne Souffle plus”

Annick Senotier’s novel focuses on the lives of Rosalie’s grandchildren, bargees on the Loire, and of one of them in particular, Désiré, who refuses to follow the family tradition. Instead, he chooses to become a teacher at the time when the Jules Ferry laws were turning public education upside-down and the first unions were being legalised.