From assassination dHenri IV to May 68, this book tells four centuries of burning issues. He dives in the great story: Ravaillac Louis XVII, Ravachol, Resistance, war dAlgérie, but also in the underworld, the marginalized and courtesans. It revives the criminal cases that have fascinated the French: Landru, Violette Nozières, Petiot, and reveals the secrets of artists and of writers like Hugo, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Picasso and Colette.
