Elisa's love for her husband is absolute--physically intense and emotionally complete. Gilles is blissfully content with his beautiful wife and family. Neither

"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy." --Independent on Sunday La Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love

This book deals with the different translations into Old French of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum, dedicated to Philippe le Bel around 1279, and their