The Châtelet Apprentice

by Jean-François Parot

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Pub Date 8 Jan 2008 | Archive Date 17 Nov 2015

Gallic Books

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV 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. Le Floch will need all his skill, courage, and integrity to unravel a mystery that threatens to implicate the king and Madame de Pompadour.

Jean-François Parot is a diplomat and historian.

France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV 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...

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Advance Praise

terrific book ... brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in eighteenth-century France --Sunday Times

Has all the twists, turns and surprises the genre demands --Independent on Sunday

Parot succeeds brilliantly in the reconstruction of of pre-revolutionary Paris --Times