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City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris by Holly Tucker is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>"An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling." —The New Yorker</p> <p>In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king’s court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and Reynie’s compulsive note-taking, Holly Tucker’s engrossing true-crime narrative
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Holly Tucker
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393248845
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.62 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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