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Description edit
Horace Grondin, deputy head of the Surete is in fact Charles Bassicousse, sentenced 16 years earlier for a murder he did not commit. He is obsessed with wreaking his revenge on Antoine Tarpagnan, the man he believes did commit the crime. Tarpagnan, an army captain, has fallen in love with... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Horace Grondin: Add a description of this character.
- Hippolyte Barthelemy
- Antoine Tarpagnan
- Jules Valles
- Palmyre
- La Corderie
- Ziquet
- Goldsmith
- Alfred Lerouge
- Jeanne Couerbe
- Segouret
- Courbet
- Marbuche
- Mc Davis
- Gabriella Pucci
- Dombrowski
- Charles Bassicousse
- Louise Michel
- Monsieur Claude
- Theo
- Emile Roussel
- Greaseball
- Leon Chauvelot
- Lecomte
- Edmond Trocard
- Mespluchet
- Guillaume Tironneau
- Leonce
- Gale
- Cecile
- Mirecourt
- Rossel
- Marceau
- La Chouette
- Marion
- Cora
- Roquette
Setting & Locations edit
- Paris
- Versailles
- Butte
- France
- Cow City
- Belleville
- Puebla
- Saint-lago
- Varlin
- Bordeaux
- Laveur
- Papa Rust
- Clignancourt
- Batignolles
First Sentence edit
On the evening of 17th March 1871 a woman's corpse was spotted in the Seine, drifting at low tide near the third pier of the pont de l'Alma.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jean Vautrin (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 843.914
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