Jean-François Parot

Jean-François Parot (June 27th 1946) is a French diplomat and writer, specialist in Paris of the 18th century.

He was vice-consul with Kinshasa, general consul of France to Saigon and Athens, adviser of embassy with Doha, Khartoum Djibouti, Ouagadougou, Sofia, minister adviser with Tunis and number 2 with the Embassy of France, like advising with the ministry for the industry and sub-manager of the personnel of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with Nantes. Between 2002 and 2006, he was assistant editor of the Direction of the Military cooperation and Defense. He is currently Ambassadeur in Republic of Guinea Bissao (nomination of October 12th, 2006).

Bachelor of arts, titular of a control in History and graduate of higher learning of Ethnology, specialist in the Egyptian techniques of momification and myths of the companies océaniennes, and Paris of the 18th century century, he is the author of a study published into micro cards (Hatchet 1970) on the social Structures of the districts of Strike, Saint-Avoye and Saint-Anthony between 1780 and 1785 .

He is especially known to be the author of the detective series Nicolas Le Floch, published with the Editions J. - C. Slats and in the collection “Large Detectives” with Editions 10/18. It is during the long Bulgarian winters, when it was in station in Sofia, that Jean François Parot had the idea of Nicolas Le Floch, born with Guérande and police chief with the Châtelet. Its works are translated into Italian, Spanish, English and Russian. They will be the object soon televisual adaptation with an adaptation of Hugues Pagan. The principal attraction of its novels lies in the scrupulous precision brought to the table of Paris of the 18th century that he proposes. It mingles with it with talent historical events and firmly built police intrigue. One feels to plane the shade of Dumas and Balzac (Vidocq) in these carried out stories of hand of Master. One also thinks of the investigations of the famous Lecoq created by Emile Gaboriau at the 19th century.

The hero and his friends are fine gourmets and the account of the adventures of the police chief Le Floch is always accompanied by the exact description of heavy and well sprinkled meals, thorough description until the receipts of time. Each account is registered during one political time specifies whose elements are tied harmoniously with the meanders of the action.

Its work, left in 2005, the Blood of the flours (Price of the Academy of Brittany 2006 and Lion' S club 2007) is accompanied by a beginning again supplement of excellent receipts, engravings and crusty police reports, all of time.

Works

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  • social Structures of the districts of Strike, Saint-Avoye and Saint-Anthony: 1780-1785 , Paris: Hatchet, 1974. - 3 microfiches of 98 images; 105 X 148 Misters - (Publications of a.U.D.I.R). Microédition of the text dactylogr., 195 p. Master's paper, Paris IV, Research center on the age of modern Europe, 1969.

; Detective novels Series " Investigations of Nicolas Le Floch, police chief in Châtelet"

  1. the Enigma of the Servites , Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2000,430 p.; Paris, ED. France leisures, 2000,430 p.; Paris, 10-18, 2001,377 p.; Paris, Pocket youth, 2003,382 p.
  2. the Man with the lead belly, Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2000,351 p.; Paris, ED. France leisures, 2001,313 p.; Paris, 10-18, 2001,311 p.; Paris, the Large book of the month, 2003,351 p.
  3. the Phantom of the Royal street , Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2001,369 p.; Paris, ED. France leisures, 2002,371 p.; Paris, 10-18, 2002,344 p.; Paris, the Large book of the month, 2003,369 p.
  4. the Nicolas Business Le Floch , Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2002,445 p.; Paris, the Large book of the month, 2003,445 p.; Paris, 10-18, 2003,397 p.
  5. the Crime of the hotel Saint-Florentin cheese , Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2002,443 p.; Paris, the Large book of the month, 2004,443 p.; Paris, ED. France leisures, 2004,445 p.; Paris, 10-18, 2005,396 p.
  6. the Blood of the flours , Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2005,446 p.; Paris, the Large book of the month, 2005,446 p.; Paris, ED. France leisures, 2006,446 p.; Paris, 10-18, 2006,423 p.
  7. the English Corpse , Paris, J. - C. Slats, 2007,426 p.

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