Fortune of France

Fortune of France is the first novel, published in 1977, of the long literary epopee that Robert Merle devotes to its modern storm monk and French history. This chronicle begins in second half of the 16th century, before death, in 1547, of François I {{er}}.

The first shutter of this fresco tells the life of the " frérèche" , kind of duet made up of Jean de Siorac and Jean de Sauveterre. The author, through the tribulations of his two protagonists, explores the birth of the movement huguenot in France.

Many historical facts (catch of Calais, confrontation enters the Guise and the Coligny…) are used as framework with its novel and allow to make the light on one of the darkest periods but also most palpitating of our history.

The continuation of this series details the life of Pierre de Siorac, wire of Jean, evolving/moving from Montpellier to Paris with its Miroul servant and his Samson brother. They will be pilot many outstanding historical facts such as the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the reign of Henri III and the crowning of Henri IV.

Summary

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Death of François I^er in 1547 with the edict of Nantes in 1599, France enlise in the test of the wars of religion. It is in this devastated country, in prey with misery, the armed robbery, the plague, with the hatred, which grows the young person Pierre de Siorac, kid of a noble périgourdine family and huguenote, hero and narrator of the novel. As of this first volume of a saga which will lead us until the end of the century, it is a whole time which revives through the history of Siorac, with its peasants, its princes, its men of sword or Church, its livelinesses and its cruelties; its language, also, tasty, coloured, marvelously restored with the reader of today. Time when little by little will be born a requirement from tolerance and peace, in echo with the cry of indignation and hope of Michel of Hospital: “Won't one see the Fortune of raised France?”

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