by Robert Merle · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253135500
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«Paris, ma bonne ville» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (635 pages, in French).
Pierre de Siorac, a young medical student, travels to Paris in 1572 to ask the king for mercy after a duel. At court, the favor shown to Coligny and the wedding of Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre heighten religious tension, while Pierre discovers the streets, the Louvre and its intrigues on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Third installment of the Fortune de France saga. The novel was originally published in 1980; this Le Livre de Poche edition is from 1994.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction, especially those interested in sixteenth-century Paris.
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.
