Violin virtuoso, renowned it “one of the bigger of Europe”, fine blade, brilliant and gallant man, the personality of Joseph of Holy Bologne georges (1745-1799), son of a slave of the Guadeloupe and of a sugar white owner, does not lack to intrigue aujourd’hui again.  Number of biographers looked into his case.  Rock Bardin, the present author delivers, searched very archives often unknown.  His work unveils so far unpublished aspects of the co-founder of the concert of the amateurs, under Louis XV policeman of the guard of the king, doubtless freemason then officer of the national guard, afterward loaded by the Convention to form a legion composed from Black, of which it became the colonel when she was transformed in regiment of hunters to horse. 

The author repositionne Holy georges in the Parisian environment of the people of color to the XVIIIe century.  Itself it recalls to his turn the good feminine fortunes of the young man, that were, for most of the columnists, principal trump of his fame, it in underlines especially triteness:  “When one does 1.80 m and that one is childlike beautiful, one attracts necessarily the most beautiful women.”  The knight made use of his charm, of course, but what returned it maybe even more irresistible and exceptional left it that took the complexity of his musical education and of his game, one compared to the one of Mozart (which is normal but excessive).  How not to attempt to quantify the unknown party, bequeathed by his maternal alignment and that carries in she deeply anchored mysterious and unknown Africa? 

But, will one say, how a hybrid one could it frequent the parlors of the good metropolitan corporation, even though the slavery beat his full one to the colonies?  Bardin shows that, tenured of a load of general inspector of the ordinary one wars, Holy georges evolves in the royal administration.  This privilege awards for him automatically it entitles horseman, then of knight.  The young hybrid one, been born of a liberal and nourished father of ideas voltairiennes in a native family of Holland - and not of Italy as one a long time did it to believe -, is thus legitimized officially by Louis XV.  The work is dense and book an infinity of details.  Too, sometimes, for the reader that stretched to untangle the mixed-up sons that the relate to the mythical knight.