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THE. SAINT-FLORENTIN. MURDERS
CONTENTS
Background to The Saint-Florentin Murders
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
PROLOGUE
Sunday 2 October 1774
THE PASSING OF THE DAYS
Sunday 2 October 1774
Monday 3 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER I
THE SAINT-FLORENTIN MANSION
Notes – CHAPTER II
KNOT OF VIPERS
CONFUSION
Tuesday 4 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER IV
BETWEEN CITY AND FAUBOURGS
Notes – CHAPTER V
DIVERSIONS OF THE HEART
Wednesday 5 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER VI
THIS COUNTRY
Thursday 6 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER VII
NAVIGATION
Friday 7 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER VIII
APPROACHES
BICÊTRE
Saturday 8 October 1774
MANOEUVRES
Sunday 9 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER XI
CONFRONTATIONS
Monday 10 October 1774
Notes – CHAPTER XII
TRAPS
Tuesday 11 October 1774
EPILOGUE
Wednesday 12 October 1774
December 1774
Notes – EPILOGUE
NOTES. CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE SAINT-FLORENTIN MURDERS
Also by Jean-François Parot
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He left the maze of old streets around the Quinze-Vingts and walked to the galleries of the Louvre. He noted with regret that the former royal palace was increasingly disfigured by all kinds of excrescences. The colonnade had recently been cleared, and already a multitude of second-hand clothes dealers were insulting it with displays of rags and tatters. Nicolas also deplored the fact that the presence of the academies entailed lodging some of their members here, to the detriment of the surroundings. Everywhere, even within the precincts of the monument, frame houses had sprung up, adorned with shapeless staircases that detracted from the majesty of the complex. He recalled a conversation between Monsieur de La Borde and the Marquis de Marigny, the brother of Madame de Pompadour and superintendent of buildings, about the noble plan to restore the palace to its former splendour. He had quoted Voltaire’s complaint at seeing the Louvre, ‘a monument to the greatness of Louis XIV, the zeal of Colbert and the genius of Perrault, hidden by buildings of the Goths and the Vandals’.
A multitude of stalls had taken root in the chinks of the vast edifice. Among them were those selling paintings and engravings. Fakes were more frequent here than genuine works, and the Lieutenancy General of Police was determined to settle a number of serious cases in which rich foreigners, victims of such swindles, had involved their embassies. In 1772, Nicolas had managed to unmask a group of forgers, which had been a salutary warning to the rest of the crooks.
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