by Robert Merle · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253136255
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«La Pique du Jour» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (635 pages, in French).
After seizing power, Henry IV seeks to secure his throne and pacify France. Pierre de Siorac carries out military and diplomatic missions, often secret, including guarding funds and investigating the Jesuits. In Rome he takes part in Vatican intrigues over the king's absolution; in Spain, he witnesses the death of Philip II at El Escorial.
It is the sixth instalment of the Fortune de France saga; the work was originally published in 1985 and this paperback edition from Le Livre de Poche appeared in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction and followers of the Fortune de France saga who want to read it in French.
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.
