Belle du Seigneur

About “Belle du Seigneur”

Belle du Seigneur is a 1968 novel by Swiss writer Albert Cohen. Set in Geneva during the 1930s, the story follows a Mediterranean Jew working for the League of Nations and his romance with a married Swiss aristocrat. It is the third book in a series of four, coming after Solal of the Solals and Nailcruncher, and before Les Valeureux. The novel won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. It was published in English in 1995 by Viking, translated by David Coward. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)