In book two of this historical saga, the elderly Louise recounts her grandmother Josephine's struggles to run the family plantation in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Josephine tries to raise her son Jean to be nothing like his grandfather and uncle, whose tyranny over their slaves and the women of the family forced Josephine and her mother to resort to the services of a voodoo priestess from New Orleans. But when Jean falls for a slave named Celeste, Josephine's tolerance and values are put to the test.
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Chretien Léa
Léa Chrétien was born in France in 1986. In her childhood, she developed a passion for drawing and storytelling. A voracious reader, she devoured all kinds of books. She had a preference for detectives and fantasy novels but also for poetry or comics. After graduating in the visual arts, she went to Liège to study illustration at ESA Saint-Luc. At the end of her training, she was working on multiple projects of comic books, although none of them came to fruition. In the time following a trip to the southern states of the US, the idea for a new story began to sprout in her mind. Two years later, she wrote "Louisiana" (Dargaud; Europe Comics in English), with Gontran Toussaint as the illustrator.
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