Used book – The Assassination of Pont-Rouge - Classics and Contemporaries, Charles Barbara, Sylvie Howlett

Charles Barbara, a great friend of Baudelaire, offers a thrilling plot set in 19th-century Paris. This fast-paced novel is considered the first French detective novel. The complete afterword will delve deeper into the study of Romanticism, as well as detective fiction, fantasy, and poetry (with an unpublished sonnet from Les Fleurs du Mal!)

A comprehensive thematic dossier on "the city as a novel character" available for download at www.classiquesetcontemporains.com