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Book Synopsis The Châtelet Apprentice: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #1 by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Châtelet Apprentice: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #1 written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted for television in France, the first of the Nicolas Le Floch mysteries tells the story of murder against the backdrop of the glittering court of Louis XV. 'Has all the twists, turns and surprises the genre demands' Independent on Sunday It's France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and immorality ... A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young recruit to the force, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains suddenly come to light, he seems to have a murder investigation on his hands. As the city descends into Carnival debauchery, Le Floch will need all his skill, courage and integrity to unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land. This is the first in a series of six historical crime novels which has sold in excess of 400,000 copies in French. The author brings eighteenth-century Paris vividly to life and the story features real-life characters Madame de Pompadour and Louis XV as well as engaging hero Nicolas le Floch.
Book Synopsis The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6 by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Baker's Blood: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #6 written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth of the Nicolas Le Floch mysteries, Le Floch investigates a baker’s death amid outcry at soaring bread prices, told 'in splendid period detail' [Sunday Times]. ‘An engaging murder mystery' FT 1775. Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task, however, is to investigate the breakdown of French secret intelligence in Austria. The city is a hotbed of plotting – and Nicolas only just survives an attempt on his life. On his return to France, Paris is in turmoil. The soaring price of grain and bread is causing widespread social unrest, and Nicolas’ first police case is the unexplained death of a baker. Could it be that events in the French capital are somehow connected to his experiences in Vienna …?
Book Synopsis The Châtelet Apprentice by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Châtelet Apprentice written by Jean-François Parot and published by Nicolas Le Floch S. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit is instructed to find him ...
Book Synopsis The Nicolas Le Floch Affair by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Nicolas Le Floch Affair written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1774. Commissioner Le Floch's stormy love affair with socialite Julie de Lasterieux has run its course. But before Nicolas can formally end the relationship, Julie is found murdered in her bed, a victim of poisoning. For now, he retains the confidence of even the King, who sends him on a secret intelligence mission. But a plot is afoot to implicate Nicolas in Julie's death, and he is soon fighting to uncover the perpetrators and clear his name."
Book Synopsis The Saint-Florentin Murders: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #5 by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Saint-Florentin Murders: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #5 written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the court of young King Louis XVI , conspiracies abound...Under the distrustful eye of his new boss at the Chatelet, Nicolas Le Floch investigates the bizarre death of a maid at the home of Monsieur de Saint-Florentin, the King's minister. When a second murder is washed up by the Seine with the same curious injuries, events begin to gather pace, leading Le Floch to Versailles, as he attempts to solve what is far more than a simple case of murder.
Book Synopsis The Nicolas Le Floch Affair: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #4 by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Nicolas Le Floch Affair: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #4 written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2010-03-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted for television in France, the fourth of the Nicolas Le Floch mysteries sees the protagonist accused of murdering a socialite - with whom he was about to end a stormy affair. 'Parot succeeds brilliantly in his reconstruction of pre-revolutionary Paris' The Times Paris, 1774. Commissioner Le Floch's stormy love affair with socialite Julie de Lasterieux has run its course. But before Nicolas can formally end the relationship, Julie is found murdered in her bed, a victim of poisoning. For now, he retains the confidence of even the King, who sends him on a secret intelligence mission. But a plot is afoot to implicate Nicolas in Julie's death, and he is soon fighting to uncover the perpetrators and clear his name.
Book Synopsis The Phantom of the Rue Royale: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #3 by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Phantom of the Rue Royale: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #3 written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris is in mourning. At the fireworks display marking the Dauphin's marriage to Marie Antoinette, hundreds of people have been injured or crushed to death. Yet not all the victims died accidentally...This tragic incident yields a new case for Commissioner Le Floch when a strangled woman is found amongst the other corpses.The investigation will lead him to the home of a furrier on Rue Royale and a terrifying encounter with supernatural forces.
Download or read book In the Metro written by Marc Augé and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you must descend into the metro. In this revelatory book, Marc Auge takes readers below Paris in a work that is both an ethnography of the city and a personal narrative. Guiding us through history, memory, and physical space, Auge juxtaposes the romance of the metro with the reality of multiethnic urban France. His work is part autobiography, with impressions from a lifetime riding the trains; part meditation on self and memory reflected in the people and places underneath Paris; part analysis of a place where the third world and the first world meet, where remnants of cultures move and press together; and part a reflection on anthropology in an era of globalization and urban development. Although he is a pillar of French thought, In the Metro is Auge's first major critical and creative work translated into English. It shows him to be firmly rooted in a tradition of literary ethnography that reaches back to Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel de Certeau, but also engaged in current theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies. In Auge's idiosyncratic and innovative approach, the act of observing the quotidian is elevated to an art. The writer and his history become part of the field he observes, and anthropology interacts with a site -- urban life -- usually reserved for sociology and cultural studies. Throughout, Auge reveals a passion for his milieu, seeing the metro as a place rich with history and literature -- an eclectic egalitarian society.
Book Synopsis The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by : F. G. Haghenbeck
Download or read book The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo written by F. G. Haghenbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Mexico’s most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo’s fascinating life and loves. When several notebooks were recently discovered among Frida Kahlo’s belongings at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, acclaimed Mexican novelist F. G. Haghenbeck was inspired to write this beautifully wrought fictional account of her life. Haghenbeck imagines that, after Frida nearly died when a streetcar’s iron handrail pierced her abdomen during a traffic accident, she received one of the notebooks as a gift from her lover Tina Modotti. Frida called the notebook “The Hierba Santa Book” (The Sacred Herbs Book) and filled it with memories, ideas, and recipes. Haghenbeck takes readers on a magical ride through Frida’s passionate life: her long and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, the development of her art, her complex personality, her hunger for experience, and her ardent feminism. This stunning narrative also details her remarkable relationships with Georgia O’Keeffe, Leon Trotsky, Nelson Rockefeller, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, and Salvador Dalí. Combining rich, luscious prose with recipes from “The Hierba Santa Book,” Haghenbeck tells the extraordinary story of a woman whose life was as stunning a creation as her art.
Book Synopsis The Man with the Lead Stomach by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Man with the Lead Stomach written by Jean-François Parot and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd Nicolas Le Floch investigation - a sinister death at the opera reveals something rotten at the French court.
Book Synopsis Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 by : L. Whaley
Download or read book Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 written by L. Whaley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
Download or read book Wolf Hunt written by Armand Cabasson and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In1809, the forces of Napoleon's Grande Armée are in Austria. For young Lieutenant Lukas Relmyer, it is hard to return to the place where he and fellow orphan Franz, were kidnapped four years previously. Franz was brutally murdered and Lukas has vowed to avenge his death. When the body of another orphan is found on the battlefield, Captain Quentin Margont and Lukas join forces to track down the wolf that is prowling once more in the forests of Aspern...
Book Synopsis The Phantom of Rue Royale by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Phantom of Rue Royale written by Jean-François Parot and published by Nicolas le Floch Investigates. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris is in mourning. At the firework display marking the Dauphin's marriage to Marie Antoinette, hundreds of people have been injured or crushed to death. Yet not all the victims died accidentally . . . and so another case for Le Floch opens. The third title in the Nicolas Le Floch Investigations.
Book Synopsis The Man with the Lead Stomach by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Man with the Lead Stomach written by Jean-François Parot and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1761 finds the newly-promoted Commisioner Le Floch on duty at a royal performance of Rameau's latest work.Events take a dramatic turn and Nicolas is soon embarked on his second major investigation when the body of a prominent courtier's son is found.The initial evidence points to suicide, but Le Floch's instincts tell him he is dealing with murder of the most gruesome kind.
Book Synopsis The Royal Runaway by : Lindsay Emory
Download or read book The Royal Runaway written by Lindsay Emory and published by Thorndike Press Large Print. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Theodora Isabella Victoria of Drieden of the Royal House Laurent is so over this princess thing. Her fiancé jilted her on their wedding day, and she's back from four months in exile -- back to putting on a perfect princess show for the Driedish nation. But Thea's sick of duty. So she sneaks out of the palace and meets a sexy Scot in a local bar, relishing the chance to be a normal woman. Until her prince for the night reveals he's the brother of her fiancé, a British spy, and he's not above blackmail. Joining forces to find out what happened the day her fiancé disappeared, Thea and Nick discover a secret that could destroy a centuries-old monarchy.
Book Synopsis The Phantom of Rue Royale by : Jean-François Parot
Download or read book The Phantom of Rue Royale written by Jean-François Parot and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Le Floch's third murder investigation into a murder at Marie Antoinette's wedding to the Dauphin.
Book Synopsis The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by : Alexander McCall Smith
Download or read book The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by the lawyer Mma Sheba, who is the executor of a deceased farmer’s estate. Mma Sheba has a feeling that the young man who has stepped forward may be falsely impersonating the farmer’s nephew in order to claim his inheritance. Mma Ramotswe agrees to visit the farm and find out what she can about the self-professed nephew. Then the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon comes to Mma Ramotswe for advice. The opening of her new salon has been shadowed by misfortune. Not only has she received a bad omen in the mail, but rumors are swirling that the salon is using dangerous products that burn people’s skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, at the office, Mma Ramotswe has noticed something different about Grace Makutsi lately. Though Mma Makutsi has mentioned nothing, it has become clear that she is pregnant . . . But in Botswana—a land where family has always been held above all else—this may be cause for controversy as well as celebration. With genuine warmth, sympathy, and wit, Alexander McCall Smith explores some tough questions about married life, parenthood, grief, and the importance of the traditions that shape and guide our lives. This is the fourteenth installment in the series. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
