by Robert Merle · Le grand livre du mois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782286004101
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«L'enfant roi» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by Le grand livre du mois in paperback (492 pages, in French).
After the assassination of Henry IV, Louis XIII reigns at nine years old while Marie de Medici and Concini control power. The knight Pierre-Emmanuel de Siorac serves the child king for seven years and witnesses his apprenticeship: secret alliances, management of the kingdom, and final accession to the throne, in a court of clerics and nobles vying for influence.
The book belongs to the Fortune de France saga, of which it is the eighth installment; the French edition was published in 1993.
For readers of historical fiction and the Fortune de France saga, interested in the seventeenth-century French court.
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.
