by Robert Merle · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782724290912
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«Les roses de la vie» is the historical novel by Robert Merle, published by France Loisirs in hardback (500 pages, in French).
Pierre-Emmanuel de Siorac, faithful servant of Louis XIII, is rewarded after the fall of Concini in 1617 and discovers the harsh life of peasants while Richelieu rises to power in 1624. The novel spans seven years of French history, from the Protestant Midi to Paris and the Louvre.
Ninth volume of the «Fortune de France» saga. Its protagonist is Pierre-Emmanuel de Siorac, Count of Orbieu. The text is in French.
For readers of historical fiction interested in 17th-century France and the «Fortune de France» saga.
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.
