Pierre de Siorac
Pierre de Siorac is the hero of the chronicle “Fortune of France” of Robert Merle. This chronicle begins one year before death from François Ier (1547). Pierre de Siorac evolves/moves in France torn by the wars of religion.
He is born in 1551 in the southernmost Périgord from a father huguenot, the baron de Mespech, and of a catholic mother (Isabelle de Caumont). He grows in the family castle not far from Sarlat. His/her father then sends it to study medicine in Montpellier. There, it will be for the first pilot time of the massacres between catholics and huguenots. Its diploma for the occupation of doctor out of pocket, it settles in Paris where it makes in particular the meeting of the surgeon of the king Ambroise Paré. The assassination of Gaspard de Coligny, chief of the party huguenot, starts the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre from which he escapes from accuracy. Thereafter, he is the personal doctor of Henri III which entrusts to him many missions of espionage against the Ligue. He attends even the assassination of the duke of Guise, principal enemy of the king in Blois.
Thereafter he will be spy with the service of King Henri IV.
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