City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris / Holly Tucker.
Nicolas de La Reynie, appointed by Louis XIV as the first police chief of Paris, pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city, unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests, and discovers that the distance between the quiet backstabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground is disturbingly short. As he continues his investigations, La Reynie suspects that Louis's mistresses are involved in many of the nefarious plots he has uncovered, and he must decide just how far he will go to protect his king. Tucker has crafted a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie's notebooks, letters, and diaries.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393355437
- ISBN: 0393239780
- ISBN: 9780393239782
- Physical Description: xxiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-296) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I "Day and Night They Kill Here" -- 1 Crime Capital of the World 3 -- 2 City of Light 15 -- 3 Street at the End of the World 26 -- 4 To Market 35 -- Part II King of Hearts -- 5 Agitation without Disorder 43 -- 6 Dew and the Torrent 50 -- 7 Door Marked 1 55 -- 8 "He Will ... Strangle Me" 61 -- Part III "She Will Turn Us All into Poisoners" -- 9 Golden Viper 69 -- 10 "Madame Is Dying, Madame Is Dead!" 73 -- 11 Poison in the Pie 77 -- 12 An Alchemist's Last "Words 80 -- 13 Faithful Servant 84 -- 14 "Brinvilliers Is in the Air" 90 -- Part IV "Cease Your Scandals" -- 15 House of Porcelain 103 -- 16 Offering 111 -- 17 "The Sneakiest and Meanest Woman in the World" 114 -- 18 "Burn after Reading" 121 -- 19 Dinner Guests 126 -- 20 Question 134 -- 21 Monsters 142 -- Part V "She Gave Her Soul Gently to the Devil" -- 22 Quanto 151 -- 23 Search and Seizure 158 -- 24 A Noble Pair 164 -- 25 Burning Chamber 170 -- 26 "Beginning to Talk" 177 -- 27 Fortune-Teller 185 -- 28 "From One Fire to Another" 195 -- Part VI Wicked Truths -- 29 Poisoner's Daughter 201 -- 30 Sacrifices 209 -- 31 "A Strange Agitation" 217 -- 32 Lock and Key 226. |
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| Subject: | La Reynie, Gabriel Nicolas de, 1625-1709. Police > France > Paris > History > 17th century. Crime > France > Paris > History > 17th century. Murder > France > Paris > History > 17th century. Police. Paris (France) > History > 17th century. |
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