by Michel Peyramaure · France Loisirs · tapa dura · ISBN 9782744145117
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«Les chiens sauvages» is the historical novel by Michel Peyramaure, published by France Loisirs in hardback (583 pages, in French).
In the Périgord during the reign of Louis XIII, peasants suffer taxes and abuses from the king's soldiers. The rebels called «croquants» take refuge in the forests and form armies; their leader, Pierre Grellety, leads them to victory between 1635 and 1640, until Richelieu brings him into his service. There are battles, festivities, betrayals and loves.
The work originally appeared in 2000; this France Loisirs edition is from 2001, with text in French.
For readers of historical fiction and period tales set in rural seventeenth-century France.
Michel Peyramaure was a French writer. He received the 1979 Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL.
