At the origin of this book, a historical fact: Louis XIV, the Sun King, came into contact with the darkest, the most mythical of the great rulers of the East, the Negus. The Abyssinian is the novel of this fabulous embassy. Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young doctor of the pashas of Cairo, will be, by an extraordinary meeting of circumstances, the hero of this poetic and baroque epic through the deserts of Egypt and Sinai, the mountains of Abyssinia, from the court of the King of Kings to that of Versailles and return.
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