by Robert Merle · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253135357
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Fortune de France» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (444 pages, in French).
Pierre de Siorac, son of a noble Huguenot family from Périgord, grows up in sixteenth-century France while the Wars of Religion ravage the country with misery, banditry and plague. The novel reconstructs that era through peasants, princes, men of the sword and of the church, and shows how the demand for tolerance and peace begins to emerge.
First installment of the historical saga Fortune de France, originally published in 1977; this French paperback edition appeared in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction interested in sixteenth-century France and family sagas.
Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. Among his many well-known songs and recordings are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues", "I Am a Pilgrim", and "Dark as a Dungeon". He is best known today, though, for his unique guitar style, still called Travis picking by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Travis picking is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb, while melodies are plucked by the index finger. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
