City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393355438 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"“Half of the nobility have done the same thing, if I felt like talking. I’d ruin them all!”" according to Elspeth G. Perkin. With a highly accessible narrative style, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris invites the modern reader back to reinvestigate a true extravagant scandal that involved a web of: suspicious deaths, damaging accusations, pa. Holly Tucker is one of my favorite historians!! Michelle This book was so much more than I had anticipated. She writes about 1600 - 1700 France as if it is a novel - except it's all true. If you are going to buy the book -- I suggest you buy the hardback. The cover is exquisite and the pictures are beautiful!! I learned m. Devoured Every Page This is the first nonfiction book I have read in awhile. I found the author, Holly Tucker, is able to pace the story in a gripping way that makes you feel that you are actually reading a work of great fiction. The fact that this incident really happened only helps t
As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magicnot even the Sun King. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie’s compulsive note-taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker’s riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe on the page. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris’s most illustrious churches and cathedrals.As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: Could Louis’s mistresses could be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king.From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the king’s court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. “An artful rec
She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and Aix-en-Provence, France. She is the author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and a Best Book of the Times Literary Supplement and Seattle Times. . Holly Tucker is a professor in the Department of French and Italian as well is in the Center for Biomedic
Tucker tells the story as if it were a classic whodunit, bringing alive an extremely complicated and baffling series of events.” - Thad Cahart, Newsday“Holly Tucker tells this story with great gusto and with an amazing array of facts. City of Light, City of Poison conjures up 17th century Paris and makes it seem close to the present day.” - Jonah Raskin, New York Journal of Books“City of Light, City of Poison is not only a serious, meticulously researched work of nonfiction, it is an irresistible story. Tucker writes with gusto and finds high drama.” - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review“In her fascinating book, Holly Tucker fuses history and mystery