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Le Prince que voilà (Fortune de France, Tome 4)
1572-1588 : années «venteuses et tracasseuses» où catholiques et protestants continuent de s'entredéchirer. Quittant de nouveau son château périgourdin, le huguenot Pierre de Siorac retrouve Paris où il devient le médecin, puis l'agent secret d'Henri III. Mûri, mais non vieilli, Pierre va découvrir, au cours de périlleuses missions, les menaces qui guettent le royaume, à l'heure où l'ambitieux Philippe II d'Espagne, mettant à profit nos discordes, arme contre le roi de France le bras du duc de Guise, chef redouté de la Ligue... Tableau saisissant d'un roi au milieu de ses grands féaux, des « quarante-cinq » qui le protègent contre les dagues, du Paris fanatique et rebelle qui le chassera du trône, Le Prince que voilà nous mène parmi les complots, les rivalités, les intrigues qui semblent bien devoir anéantir la « fortune de France ». Pourtant ni l'amitié ni le bonheur de vivre ne perdent leurs droits. Ni l'entrain inépuisable et fécond d'un romancier plus captivant que jamais.
694 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2025
About the author
Robert Merle
121 books266 followersBorn 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.
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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