Hello I am in charge of foreign rights at Le Cherche midi éditeur and Belfond. Le Cherche midi is a mainstream publisher presenting literature, women's fiction, thrillers, self help, documents... with always accurate topics. Belfond is a historical fiction publisher which has two series: Literary fiction (Belfond Pointillés) and Commercial Fiction (novels and thrillers). I would be pleased to introduce our Fall rights list with you. :)
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The story of three destinies that intersect and end up catching each other for good.Three people meet in Paris in 1918. Just after they get to know each other, they realize they had witnessed the same scene a few years ago in America. Everything starts in 1916 in a small town of Tennessee. Arabella is an intrepid teenager and circus fan. Jeremiah is a young journalist but his deepest wish is to become a writer. And Kid the jazz man is running away from the KKK and precariousness. They don’t know each other and yet the three of them have witnessed a shocking event: the execution by hanging of an elephant, Mary, found guilty of having killed a man.The three of them will finally meet in post-war Paris, and the improbability of this encounter will strongly bring them together. Arabella and Jeremiah will fall in love, but the entire trio will get inseparable. They will take it as a sign and end up accumplishingtheir incredible destiny in Keyna, by saving elephants from abuse. But will this be enough to save them from themselves? From America involved in the First World War to the Paris of the 1920s, passing through the Kenya of the English colonists, it is a saga about a youth in love with the absolute, with environmental awareness and with animals rights.
February 1943. After six months of relentless combat, Hitler’s troops lose the Battle of Stalingrad 700 000 German soldiers died for nothing. It’s the turning point of the war. Certain ranking office of the Wehrmacht no longer believe victory is possible. In Berghof, far from the horrors of the Eastern Front, the Führer and Eva Braun spend their days in peace. They enjoy lounging about with their dogs on the panoramic terrace that looks out onto the Bavarian Alps. It’s in part, from this mountain home, that the chancellor leads his war against the Allies. It’s always where he enjoys watching American films. Especially those starring Clark Gable whom he considers to be the greatest living actor. After the death of his wife Carole Lombard, Gable joins the US Air Force and is apart of missions to bomb Germany. When Hitler learns that his favorite actor is against him, he orders his capture. Martin Bormann, Hitler’s personal secretary, is tasked with finding the officer who is the most qualified for this unusual mission. After having studied countless profiles, Bormann is intrigued by a young sharpshooter who has already successfully completely several dangerous missions: Captain Florian Weiter. During a mission, the B-17 that Gable is flying is shot down and crashes in the Chevreuse Valley, near Paris. But not before Gable managed to eject himself and parachute to safety, helped by the Resistants. But German radars were able to locate the crash site and so Captain Weiter is sent to France which leads to the improbable meeting between Adolf Hitler and Clark Gable.
When a very ordinary doctor in a very ordinary town is manipulated to do something extraordinarily deadly. Paul Ménard is a good man. He is a small-town doctor who has been married to his wife for over thirty years. They have two grown children and live in a beautiful home. Theirs is a quiet, uneventful, ordinary existence. And then Camille Ellis comes to town. She is beautiful, like a movie star. Like Marilyn Monroe even and she has her eyes set on Paul. It starts innocently enough, with a visit to his office because of a chronic headache. But little by little, Camille seduces him; Paul could hardly believe that such a beautiful, young woman could be interested in him. But she is and his lust for her is overwhelming. Camille slowly opens up to him about her abusive husband Marc, an air force pilot who is often away on missions. He beats her and “shares” her with drunken friends; he even hits their daughter Céleste. Camille’s friend Sophie calls Paul regularly begging him to do something to help Camille. Even Celeste asks for his help. Paul is a good man. He must do something. When Marc comes home from a mission feeling unwell, Camille takes him to see Paul for treatment. This is Paul’s chance to be Camille’s hero. To do what needs to be done. Maybe, in the end, he’s not such a good man after all. But maybe not everything is as it seems.
