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Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

By Jacques Yonnet, Christine Donougher (Translator)
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By Jacques Yonnet, Christine Donougher (Translator)
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'What makes Yonnet's memoir so special is the way the real and fantastic meet. After all, it is set during the Occupation, and the author was a Resistance hero. The secrets of Paris play a role in the struggle against the Germans and their collaborators. Thus, the occultist spiv Keep-on-Dancin' initiates Yonnet to a "psychic circuit" that enables him to unmask a Gestapo informer in "the room where only the truth can be told".

Yonnet portrays Paris as a character in her own right: the city i...

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