Chance and willpower

In Chance and willpower, Henri Cestia takes you on a journey that will take you from seventeenth to the twentieth century, in Bigorre, Bearn, Uruguay, Louisiana, Argentina and Guadeloupe.
By following the common thread of the genealogiy of the surname Cestia, the autor will introduce you to people who are more ofthen poor than rich, who are neither princes nor kings, but men and women whose ordinary lives are made up of chance and will. This book is not a novel. It's all true. The archival documents are available on the author's website.
Thus, through life stories, in a micro-history approach, Henri Cestia makes us encounter History.

Henri Cestia was born in 1949. Trained as an engineer and IAE Paris-Dauphine, he began in the 1990s to digitize the family genealogy and then continued the généalogical work initiated by his parents on the Cestia branch. In 2011, he created a website and expanded his research to Cestia around the world. Until the first edition de Hasard et Volonté in 2018, he relentlessly searched for documents and information on the Cestia that he published regularly on his website.