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Triboulet #1

by Michel Zévaco

À 50 ans, François 1er est las de la belle Ferronnière, il aime la douce et jeune Gilette. Or Gilette n'est autre que la fille adoptive de son fou, Triboulet, et est aimée de Manfred, truand de la Cour des Miracles. D'autres surprises attendent encore le roi... François Ier, grande figure de la renaissance, nous apparaît ici sous un jour peu coureur de jupon, obsédé, lâche, il va se retrouver confronté à la vengeance de son ancienne maîtresse, odieusement traitée. Nous retrouvons, au coeur de ce récit, d'autres grandes figures historiques, telles que Ignace de Loyola (bras armé de l'Inquisition) ou Étienne Dolet (imprimeur et esprit éclairé). Comme toujours avec Zévaco, le style est vif, alerte, l'histoire pleine d'action et de on ne s'ennuie pas un instant. Il n'est pas besoin d'aller chercher loin l'inspiration de l'auteur, en la circonstance. Triboulet, personnage historique, qui fut le bouffon de la cour de France sous les règnes de Louis XII et François Ier, est le personnage principal de la pièce de Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse, qui a ensuite inspiré Francesco Maria Piave pour le livret de l'opéra Rigoletto de Giuseppe Verdi. Il est amusant de constater que dans les articles encyclopédiques consacrés à Triboulet ou à la célèbre pièce de Hugo, ce roman de Zévaco n'est jamais cité. Ce qui en dit long sur la place de la littérature populaire...

Genres: Historical Fiction, Childrens

898 pages

First published May 11, 1910

About the author

Michel Zevaco (also written as Zévaco) was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist.

Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.

Zevaco's famous cloak and dagger novels Les Pardaillan, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success. Yet he is today quite unknown, in spite of the new interest aroused by popular literature.

A former school teacher, then an officer, he became a militant journalist, who wrote for various revolutionary newspapers, of anarchist tendency. He became famous mainly for the part he played in the anti-clerical struggles at the end of the 19th century. Then, as a writer of serial novels, he published works which had a great success in Jean Jaurès' daily La Petite République, and he became appointed serial writer for Le Matin from 1906 to his death.

His already well-established popularity was made even greater by his promising beginnings as a film-director in 1917. His novels first published by Fayard and Tallandier were republished several times and adapted for the screen; the latest paperback edition only gives a mutilated version, and is impaired by many cuts.

He is remembered as the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'Hôtel Saint Pol and Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels, but also published novels related to his times. Some of his serials have not yet been published

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Reviews

[D'ale lui Damian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Regele cerșetorilor Tribulet-Michel Zevaco (335 pagini)

Nici nu mai stiu cand am citit o carte atat de complexa,cu atatea personaje ...
Acțiunea se petrece in sec. XVI-lea,in timpul domniei regelui Francois I,un rege deloc pe placul meu,nu ma derajeaza ca schimba amantele ,ci modul marsav cum o face.
Sunt atatea personaje si povesti ce au legatura intre ele,încât nici nu stiu cum sa explic acțiunea cărții...
Regele se îndrăgostește si descopera ca ce aoe care o dorra drrpt noua mentresa nu este decat fiica lui,Gillete, care il iubeste pe unul dintre cei mai urmariti "infractori" de la "Curtea Miracolelor -Manfred care nu este dacat fiul pierdut al contelui Ragastans.
Manfred a fost crescut de bătrâna Gypsie alături fiul furat al magistrstului regal,care si el este urmărit pt a fi spânzurat .
Fosta metresa reușește să se răzbune pe rege,otravindu-l..chiar cu o seara inainte de atacul asupra cerșetorilor de la "Curtea miracolelor"