Jean-François Parot having been very successful in portraying the protagonists in The Enigma of white-coats, it is permissible to skip this step and to design a second dense and intense novel. Dailleurs plot is complex as I like. It is perfectly posed, revealing only very gradually, as the outstanding rising gradually like a good soufflé. Both in his first opus the misadventures of Nicolas Le Floch might seem a little too acadabrantesque, as there is just the author and all appears well balanced, that japprécie (for example Nicolas does is kidnapped only once). Dailleurs We feel that Jean-François Parot still had to provide considerable research work to describe so accurately Parisian life and especially to make so if just the intrigues and the life of the court at Versailles. Only small problem: the main characters lack depth. I wait impatiently for the moment when the masks fall to unveil men with their qualities (for now fulfills the first two novels) and especially their weaknesses. At that time, Nicolas Le Floch happen in my heart at Joseph Legris.
