L'AUTEUR Michel Cosem is native of
Toulouse where he went to
University. He has never
stopped writing novels and
poems, meeting his readers and
travelling throughout the
world. His first novels were
published by Robert Laffont
and his anthologies by
Seghers, Casterman and Gallimard.
Michel Cosem likes writing
about legends, fantasy, and
supernatural phenomena in his
novels appreciated both by
teenagers and adults. He
appeals to the imagination
whatever the places where the
action takes place. He
particularly likes journeys,
which are the opportunities for
discoveries, studies on
history and legends, but also
for meeting people.
Les vies multiples du Troubadour Peire Vidal[978-2-35291-036-7] 20.00EUR 19.00EUR - 320 Pages 150 x 230 ISBN : 978-2-35291-036-7 Dilicom : 3012271090000 Roman Historique Collection Pierrefeu
L’histoire tumultueuse et incroyable,
mais vraie, d’un grand troubadour toulousain
de l’Occitanie à la Terre sainte, au XIIIe siècle.
(Aux côtés de Richard Cœur de Lion et de Philippe Auguste)
This novel reconstructs the multiple lives of one of the most famous 13th century poets, born in Toulouse and the son of one of the towns’ craftsmen. He studied music and poetry in the Comte de Toulouse’ Castle, before springing into life at the Aragon King’s Court. Through his wanderings on the Southern roads his will spend his time singing and meeting the most beautiful ladies of the time. His adventures in Provence are famous, but Peire Vidal didn’t think they were enough. He embarked for Cyprus where he got married to the Byzance Emperor’s niece, sometimes thinking he was the Emperor himself. With Richard Cœur de Lion and Philippe Auguste, he took part in the Crusade leading to Jerusalem. Back in the South of France, the Aragon King nominated him as his children’s tutor (or private teacher) who, would later on play a major part in history (Pierre II from Aragon). But, always wandering, Peire Vidal left for Hungaria, then came back to Provence, fell in love again, was mixed up in mad and strange adventures, and writing poems at the same time. As he was travelling, he also met the other famous poets of his time. This novel explores that time, one of the most beautiful periods in the South, just before the sudden invasion of the “Albigeois Crusade”. Side by side here are “History” at large and an individual story wherefrom emerge the deeply human figure of a man fascinated by the Mediterranean (sea) but first of all a poet and a merry bit of a lad throughout his life.
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