The Magical University of Lille

Romantasy & Science Fantasy series set in 1850s France in a magical university where lecturers wage a fierce competition for promotions.   Adélaïde Jameux is a lecturer at the University of Lille in France. She is dreaming of the freedom to do the magical research she wants, but new laws are outlawing more and more magic, and Adélaïde values few things more than her safety.   As the French Kingdom is at war with rebellious Dark Lord Ludovic de Gaudriault and his army, universities have been turned into military academies. But politics means lecturers like Adélaïde still need to cater to spoilt-brats with rich parents, making teaching unbearable.   When the Chosen One prophesised to kill the Dark Lord is suddenly found in the person of a poor and uneducated child, Lille is chosen to host him. This makes Adélaïde one of his teachers and thrust her into the high-stake politics she has tried so hard to avoid. Soon, both the king and the Dark Lord take interest in her...