Perhaps with 50% less text?

Violette Cabesos is a person who has many documented before writing this novel and clearly wants to spread his knowledge. Where courses in history, geo-politics, sciences which the dialogues, indigent also used as a pretext. A character arrives in Paris? and presto! an extract from the Green Guide (Michelin or other), another arrives in Prague? and again, visiting the city. In the end, the granddaughter of the female lead directly reads a tour guide to his grandmother ... at least the author does so spare us the dialogues pretexts is something gained. A young woman, Victory is haunted by Théogène, an alchemist, who died some 500 centuries ago. The start of the novel does not end because we have to read the story of the life of every person from birth, and the story of the life of his ancestors ... It's long ... In these exciting biographies come add moods and questions Victory and Théogène, a real "loser" ("At 25, he feels weak and afflicted like an old man", "Once again, the young man feels Lost, lost "- The" again "is the author ...) The theme of alchemy is it an excuse for a real catch-all where one finds pell-mell, among others, Flamel Faust and Saint-Germain and where one attends alchemical delirium in a pseudo-specialized verbiage. In summary: a laborious filling the last chapter is not even satisfying.