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Certain historical figures were buried twice, first in a tomb and then in the shadow of their fame. This is the case for Jacques Cole, the protagonist of "The Dream Maker". He was the first French merchant to set his sights on the East and the supervisor of King Charles VII. He lived in the early fifteenth century and witnessed this era of continuity and the transformation of the Middle Ages giving way to the Renaissance. This separation of the past and the future made people ignore his own reality, the instigator of the revolution. This book is written in the voice of Cole, who lives in exile on the island of Chios, recalling his magnificent life: from the golden leopard that represented the Eastern dream in his childhood to the calm and precocious young man during the siege, from the ambitious businessman and powerful official who traveled around the world to his precarious life in exile, and his only love. It was not until Agnès Sorel appeared on his path that he understood how happy and painful the human heart can be...
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