Rouge Bresil - Red Brazil - French Edition Author:Jean-Christophe Rufin The plot of this epic is set in 1555, on a small island in the Guanabara bay of Rio de Janeiro, where an odd French expeditionary force, made up of sailors, craftsmen, priests, ex-convicts and a Quixotic knight, has just landed. Their objective is twofold: on the one hand, to set up a French colony on this far-off rich continent to compete with ... more »the Portuguese, on the other hand, to convert the Indians to Christianity. Ill-prepared for the realities of the New World and, above all, torn apart by theological controversy which sets the Catholics and Calvinists among them against one another, these French pioneers see their dreams of colonisation gradually dissipate.
In French.
La grande aventure des Fran?ais au Br?sil est un des ?pisodes les plus extraordinaire et les plus m?connus de la Renaissance.
Rouge Brasil reconte l'histoire de deux enfants, Just et Colombe, embarqu?s de force dans cette exp?dition pour servir d'interpr?tes aupr?s des tribus indienne« less