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Honorat: A Novel is the intriguing saga of two Wine-Empire families, their ancestral arootsa traced to the aSephardim,a the Hebrews of Spain, during and following the fearsome Inquisition of 1492! Spainas royal edicts decreed severe dilemmas on the Hebrews, the most flagrant being aforced conversions to Catholicism!a Hundreds of thousands of Hebrews already converted.. conversos.. arebelled!a These arebelsa were known as Marranos! Centuries Pass! During World War Twoas period of infamy, the French family de Bergeron of Beaupre in Burgundy, and the Italian family Gondolfo of Castiglione-Falletto in north Italyas Piedmont province arediscovera their Hebrew origins and Judaic heritage! Their lives, their loves, their hopes, and their promises endure against the annals and ravages of the 20th Century! Honorat contains first-hand personal experiences alongside aThe Maquisa. The French Resistance Forces, together with aliaison effortsa with members of the Jewish Underground in Provence who ultimately became responsible for saving thousands of Marranos and European Jews from the death camps of Eastern Europe.