by Rose Tremain · LATTES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782709642644
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«L'ami du roi» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by Lattès in paperback (480 pages, in French).
Robert Mérivel, physician and friend of Charles II of England, travels to France to make his way at the court of the Sun King. At Versailles he discovers a world of appearances and miseries, but the botanist Madame de Flamanville draws him into an unexpected passion that confronts him with the meaning of his life.
The novel belongs to the Restoration saga, of which it is the second instalment; it was originally published in English under the title «Merivel».
For readers of historical fiction and followers of the Restoration saga, especially those interested in the seventeenth-century French court.
Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She as been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
