Bibliography of Jean Luc Angrand

Jean-Luc Angrand, was born on 12 /01/1966 in Dakar (Senegal), a descendent of the oldest mixed race minority in Africa which appeared in Senegal in the 16th century with the arrival of the first explorers on the coast of Senegal under the command of Prince Henry the navigator, often Portuguese Jews and catholics. The descendents of this first mixed race people, interbred again with the French in the 18th century. In “Céleste ou le temps des signares” (Céleste or the time of the signares), he retraces this minority's matriarchal period, called "the time of the signares".
The signares, matriarchal women of mixed race, began their reign in the 17th century and continued until the start of colonization in the 19th century and the application of the terrible French civil code which transformed the daughters of these proud matriarch traders of Senegal (Gorée and Saint-Louis) into women of minor significance, like in metropolitan France.
The signares, famous for their bewitching beauty and trading abilities, amassed colossal fortunes and developed the art of sumptuous living over three centuries. Between everyday coquetry, Sunday festivals and looked after by swarming retinues of richly adorned captives, they led the life of business women, heads of families and femmes fatales, cultivating sensuality to the extreme.