L'Aube rouge (novel)

L'Aube rouge

Title page of the 1925 manuscript, which names the work as a sotie
Author	Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Language	French
Genre	Historical fiction Sotie
Set in	Antananarivo, 1882–96
Publication date	Written 1925 published 1998
Publication place	Madagascar

L'Aube rouge ([lob ʁuʒ], "The Red Dawn") is a historical novel by Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Its narrative, influenced by the author's Malagasy nationalist sentiments in the context of French colonization, follows the 1883–96 invasions of Madagascar by France and the war of resistance fought by the Malagasy Kingdom of Imerina. L'Aube rouge, Rabearivelo's first novel, was written in 1925 and published posthumously in 1998, 61 years after the author's death by suicide.