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Fortune de France #13

Le Glaive et les amours

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Les révoltes se multiplient contre Louis XIII et Richelieu, soutenues en secret par le frère du roi et la reine elle-mème.
En 1631, le maréchal de Marillac et le duc de Montmorency préparent un nouveau complot. Arrètés, ils sont exécutés l'année suivante.
Trente ans plus tard, le 9 mars 1661, Mazarin meurt au château de Vincennes. Le lendemain, Louis XIV, âgé de vingt-trois ans, réunit les princes, les ducs et ses ministres, pour leur annoncer que désormais il dirigera lui-mème la France.
Entre ces deux dates, bien des événements inattendus - le conflit avec l'Espagne, la trahison de Cinq-Mars, la Fronde -, que nous raconte le duc d'Orbieu, héros et porte-parole de Robert Merle, pour notre plus grand plaisir.
Fortune de France 1. Fortune de France - 2. En nos vertes années - 3. Paris, ma bonne ville - 4. Le Prince que voilà - 5. La Violente Amour - 6. La Pique du jour - 7. La Volte des vertugadins - 8. L'Enfant-Roi - 9. Les Roses de la vie - 10. Le Lys et la Pourpre - 11. La Gloire et les Périls - 12. Complots et cabales - 13. Le Glaive et les Amours

596 pages, Pocket Book

First published January 1, 2005

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Robert Merle

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Born in Tebessa located in ,what was then, the French colony of Algeria. Robert Merle and his family moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.

His novels Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal, 1967), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as Day of the Dolphin. The film The Day of the Dolphin bore very little resemblance to Merle's story.

He died of a heart attack at his home La Malmaison in Grosrouvre near Paris.

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