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.
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Jean-Francois Parot. The Phantom of the Rue Royale: Nicolas Le Floch Investigation #3
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THE PHANTOM OF RUE ROYALE
CONTENTS
Background to The Phantom of Rue Royale
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
PLACE LOUIS XV
Wednesday 30 May 1770
NOTES – CHAPTER I
SARTINE AND SANSON
Thursday 31 May 1770
NOTES – CHAPTER II
THE DEUX CASTORS
NOTES – CHAPTER III
TWISTS AND TURNS
Friday 1 June 1770
NOTES – CHAPTER IV
AFFAIRS OF STATE
Saturday 2 June 1770
NOTES – CHAPTER V
FEAR
Sunday 3 June 1770: Pentecost
NOTES – CHAPTER VI
PENTECOST
Louisbourg, this fifth of December 1750
Hon-dat, this fifth of January 1769
Monday 4 June 1770, three in the morning
NOTES – CHAPTER VII
CHRISTOPHE DE BEAUMONT
NOTES – CHAPTER VIII
EXORCISM
Tuesday 5 June 1770
LIGHT AND TRUTH
NOTES – CHAPTER X
THE HEARING
Wednesday 6 June 1770
NOTES – CHAPTER XII
ENDINGS
Thursday 7 June 1770
Nantes, 18 August 1770
Carthage, La Marsa, April–November 2000. NOTES – CHAPTER XII
NOTES. CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Also by Jean-François Parot
About the Author
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‘The period detail is marvellously evocative, Le Floch is brave and engaging …’ Economist
‘Parot succeeds brilliantly in his reconstruction of pre-revolutionary Paris, in splendid period detail.’ The Times
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‘Le Floch will suffice,’ Nicolas said with a smile.
‘Madame Adélaïde2 calls you nothing else, Monsieur, and you are her favourite hunting companion. I don’t know where I’m going to put you and Monsieur, Monsieur …?’
