Virginie Caillé-Bastide

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Virginie Caillé-Bastide is a French writer of historical fiction. She was born in 1962 in Lorient. Her historical novels Le Sans Dieu and Le Sans Maitre are set in 18th-century Brittany. [1] [2]

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