Michel Benoit

Michel Benoît (a nom de plume) is a religious scolar and novelist, borna in 1940 in Madagascar (then a French colony). After obtaining a PhD in Pharmacology, he entered the Benedictine order as an unordained monk at the abbey of Saint Benoît sur Loire (from which he took his pen name), remaining a monk for twenty-two years. Because of his ideological non-conformity, he eventually left the Catholic Church and decided to devote himself to research and writing. His first book, …