by Robert Merle · Editions de Fallois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702832929
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«La gloire et les périls» is the historical novel by Robert Merle published by Editions de Fallois in paperback, with 444 pages in French.
The siege of La Rochelle in 1628, the last great clash between Catholics and Huguenots, is the setting of this novel. Count d'Orbieu narrates in the first person the year the siege lasts, with the gigantic dike closing the bay as a key element, while alternating dangerous missions inside the city with his love affairs.
Eleventh installment of the historical saga Fortune de France, originally published in 1999.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and for those who follow the Fortune de France saga by Robert Merle.
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.
