FR 
EN The Church of Wolves
The Church of Wolves is my first novel. It is set in the horrific upsurge of violence unleashed by the Catholic Church on the “Cathar” or “Albigensian” heretics of the Occitan region of France in the thirteenth century.
The novel recounts the fictional story of Luce, a young Cathar struggling to survive following the fiery execution of both of her parents following the fall of her doomed hometown, Minerve. Trying to find refuge in a world turned upside down, the enterprising and audacious Luce decides to hide where no one would think to look for one of her ilk: in a Benedictine convent.
By turns tragic and thrilling, and narrated throughout with Luce’s acerbic, deadpan humour, The Church of Wolves (which is what the Cathars called Roman Catholicism) presents a vital glimpse of a vanished, fascinating world: evoking the Cathars’ often strikingly modern beliefs and practices, and their efforts non-violently to resist their systematic extirpation.
