Title : Voltaire leads the investigation - Volume 3 - The devil wears Voltaire - Frédéric Lenormand - book

Summary :

Voltaire has finally found a worthy opponent: the devil himself! Beelzebub sows corpses throughout Paris, to the point that the Church, anxious to avoid any scandal, calls on the famous philosopher to conduct a discreet investigation behind the police's back. In a Paris of the Enlightenment still very much imbued with irrational beliefs, where vampires, demons and the living dead seem to wander at will, who else to send on their trail but a philosopher known for believing in nothing? In exchange, Cardinal Fleury, who governs France, will authorize the publication of the Philosophical Letters , this sulphurous firebrand. All that remains for Voltaire is to show what philosophy can do against superstition. And also to discover who is sowing pieces of human bodies into the writer's bath, to uncover the secret of a mysterious petticoat coveted by an assassin, without forgetting to have his new tragedy performed at the Comédie-Française, in order to revolutionize a dusty theatrical art!
Both a historical detective novel and a Voltairean tale, The Devil Wears Voltaire is written in a jubilant style as finely crafted as the language of the Enlightenment.

• EAN : 9782709642903
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