Our selection of 3 exciting novels

1. “The business of rue Transnonain”, by Jérôme Chantreau

Ed. The tribe, 468 p. ; € 22.

Here is an exceptional dive into the July monarchy, near man and woman, naturalist at La Zola, romantic at the Hugo, breathless.

Her name is Annette Vacher, she is an orphan, from her Basque campaign to work in Paris. She frequents men covered with white and the bad manners of the quarries of the Montmartre Butte, the garnished with street girls, but also the houses of solidarity, idealist women.

He, Joseph Lutz, police officer with stained blood, looking for this Annette, the only survivor of a carnage that occurred at number 12 rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834. While republican insurgents erected barricades against the monarchy, the army burst there, killing without summons, old people and children. The Republicans denounce a state crime. Adolphe Thiers, Prime Minister of King Louis-Philippe, wants to prove the involvement of the dangerous society of human rights. Annette’s young lover, found dead, was a part of it.

Where is the truth? The novelist, two hundred years after the facts, reopens the file, restoring the testimonies, and the volcanic atmosphere of the streets of Paris.

This brilliant novel shows what a breathless power is capable that wants to restore order. And also how beings, when they are held by humanism, can thwart the blows of fate …

Muriel Fauarit

Our opinion: PPP