Episode 2168: THE LAST TROUBADOR by Eugene Scruggs - a podcast by Ric Bratton

from 2021-05-20T20:05:09

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THE LAST TROUBADOUR by Eugene Scruggs

After years of wandering across Europe, playing the fool, singing and strumming the lute for bishops and princes, as well as in the bawdiest of country taverns, I, Charles Coypeau Dassoucy, the last of the roving troubadours, have returned to Paris, my beloved native city. My once golden locks have turned to silver. I have four less teeth. My keen eyes now require the aid of Florentine spectacles. But on the plus side, I return with fifty rousing drinking songs, a collection of verses, and what's best, five hundred shiny gold pistols, which I managed to spirit out of the clutches of that murderous Duke of Mantua and his henchmen.

C. Eugene Scruggs is professor emeritus of French literature and history with a specialty in the seventeenth-century period. Over the years, he has introduced more than three hundred university-level students to the culture of that France by way of summer study-tours. In recognition of this, in 2002 Scruggs was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by decree of the French prime minister. Scruggs has also received distinguished achievement awards from college and high school alma maters and is president emeritus of the Florida Consortium for International Education. He is the author of six books, treating such diverse topics as French culture, the American Civil War, and life in the rural South. Dr. Scruggs currently lives in Lakeland, Florida.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Troubadour-Eugene-Scruggs-ebook/dp/B08R7Y6498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9781648952722&qid=1609169022&sr=8-1
www.Stratton-Press.com
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