{"id":1289104,"date":"1957-05-04T09:00:59","date_gmt":"1957-05-04T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/1957-belle-humeur-ou-la-veridique-histoire-de-mandrin\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:29:53","slug":"1957-belle-humeur-ou-la-veridique-histoire-de-mandrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/1957-belle-humeur-ou-la-veridique-histoire-de-mandrin\/","title":{"rendered":"1957: Belle humeur ou la v\u00e9ridique histoire de Mandrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Belle-humeur.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62 alignleft size-thumbnail\" w=\"\"><strong>Paris, Le livre contemporain \u2013 Amiot-Dumond, coll. Visages de l\u2019aventure, 202 pages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ferme G\u00e9n\u00e9rale (1680 &#8211; 1794) was a body of financiers and shareholders who, having bought the office from the King, collected the various taxes in force, with the right to keep half of them. Needless to say, the Farmers were overzealous, and infinite abuses were committed: here we have the ancestor of the international mafias and trusts, depending on which side of the law they are on. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was against this system and its men that the highwayman Mandrin, France&#8217;s Robin-des-bois, rose to fame, ending up roasted alive in a public square in Valence in the early 1750&#8217;s. He remained in popular memory for a long time, and there are still recordings of songs celebrating his exploits. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A character, then, befitting the picaresque pen of a Fran\u00e7oise in her thirties, who quenches her thirst for justice and a taste for the epic in the writing of her story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, Le livre contemporain \u2013 Amiot-Dumond, coll. Visages de l\u2019aventure, 202 pages. The Ferme G\u00e9n\u00e9rale (1680 &#8211; 1794) was a body of financiers and shareholders who, having bought the office from the King, collected the various taxes in force, with the right to keep half of them. Needless to say, the Farmers were overzealous, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[347,466,272,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1953-1961-en","category-bibliographies-en","category-from-francoise","category-romans-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470652,"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289104\/revisions\/1470652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francoise-d-eaubonne.org\/Hypathie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}