Paris Looking for Secretary with Sword
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About This Novel
At the end of the 18th century, on the eve of the French Revolution, the European continent was immersed in the atmosphere of "the storm is about to come". In order to bring light and hope to Spain under the autocratic imperial rule, two academicians of the Royal Academy of Spain, the short and fat librarian Don Hermogenes and the lean admiral Don Pedro Zarate, accepted the commission from their colleagues and went to Paris together to find and strive to secretly bring back the 28-volume Encyclopedia, which represents enlightenment and progress. In Spain at that time, the "Encyclopedia" had been included in the list of banned books by the Inquisition, so this book-hunting journey was destined to be full of dangers, and those who wanted to stop them were not only bandits, but also some colleagues from the Royal Academy of Spain. Through the perspective of two book hunters, combining historical facts and imagination, Spanish national writer Arturo Pérez-Revert will recreate the historical panorama of the turbulent times and turbulent undercurrents of France's Great Revolution.
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