Malte Tricolore

Didier Destremau, former French Ambassador to Malta, has just launched a new book - Malte Tricolore - an 'imagined description of Malta had the French not let it be taken over by the English'. The book is translated by Simone Mizzi and published by Midsea books. From The Times:

..Well researched and amusing, Malte Tricolore gives a counter-factual account of a French Malta and takes the reader through the last two centuries. It describes the social, economic and political evolution of the Maltese islands as it might have been had Malta remained French from the time of Napoleon's return, breaking through the British blockade, to the granting of Independence in 1964 by....Charles de Gaulle, and on through to EU accession, a subject on which Ambassador Destremau was particularly forthright.

The reader will meet several well-loved historical characters along the way, from Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton to many a Maltese heroic figure and political leader. Malte Tricolore carries some rare and colourful illustrations of Malta and will be sold at Lm4.95. Lighthearted and satirical, but with his great love of Malta evident on every page, this is Ambassador Destremau's third book on Malta but the first to be translated into English and published in Malta...