The Chatelet Apprentice
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Author |
: Jean-François Parot |
Publisher |
: Gallic Books |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2008-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906040468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 190604046X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Châtelet Apprentice: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #1 by : Jean-François Parot
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.
Author |
: Jean-François Parot |
Publisher |
: Nicolas Le Floch S |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105123402724 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Châtelet Apprentice by : Jean-François Parot
Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit is instructed to find him ...
Author |
: Jean-François Parot |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131703410 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Man with the Lead Stomach by : Jean-François Parot
2nd Nicolas Le Floch investigation - a sinister death at the opera reveals something rotten at the French court.
Author |
: Jean-François Parot |
Publisher |
: Gallic Books |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2009-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906040529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906040524 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Phantom of the Rue Royale: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #3 by : Jean-François Parot
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.
Author |
: Mary Pansy Demombron |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 1917 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89085971851 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apprenticeship in the Paris Gilds, 1261-1461 by : Mary Pansy Demombron
Author |
: Jean-François Parot |
Publisher |
: Gallic Books |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2010-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906040581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906040583 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Saint-Florentin Murders: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #5 by : Jean-François Parot
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.
Author |
: Michel Foucault |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2012-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307819291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307819299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discipline and Punish by : Michel Foucault
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author |
: Andrew Pepper |
Publisher |
: Phoenix |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1780220111 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781780220116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bloody Winter by : Andrew Pepper
The troubled head of the Detective Branch returns, in an intriguing case of kidnap, rebellion and murder... The body of a vagrant is discovered in a ditch in County Tipperary. Knox, a young Irish policeman with divided loyalties is told that the landowner wants the case dealt with swiftly and quietly. However, when Knox examines the corpse, he realises that this supposed vagrant was wearing a Savile Row suit . . . Three months earlier, Detective Inspector Pyke was investigating a kidnapping in Wales. The crime seems to be linked to a group of rebels, but Pyke soon suspects the case is not as clear cut as it seems. What are the links between the rebellion in Wales and the unrest in Ireland - and has Pyke finally bitten off more than he can chew?
Author |
: Henry Brodribb Irving |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1918 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B268736 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Book of Remarkable Criminals by : Henry Brodribb Irving
Author |
: Steven L. Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 790 |
Release |
: 1996-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822317060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822317067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 by : Steven L. Kaplan
Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplan's study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure.