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Novel · A historical and political fable

I Was
the President

An American Soul

From the promise of 1776 to the age of screens, a single voice recounts two centuries of American power from the inside — and we do not, at first, know who it is.

Je fus le Président — An American Soul is a French-language novel by Franck Lavoyer, the American counterpart to Je fus le Président. The full English edition is on its way.

Read an excerpt The first novel — France
The novel

A nation invented on a promise — “all men are created equal” — and never done wrestling with it.

From the Founders to the war that nearly broke the Union, from the century of power to the age when truth itself is contested, each era becomes a scene, each presidency a trial — carried by one lucid, melancholy, often wry voice, all the way to a question that burns in our own time.

Forthcoming — the next novel

Je fus le Roi

A British Soul

After France and America, the same voice crosses eleven centuries of British history — from Alfred the Great to our present.

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