Saturday, September 27, 2014

Researching a Historical Novel.

Justus Juncker, A Scholar Sitting at His Desk.












Louis Shalako


The thing about research is that 99.99 % of it never ends up in the book. You do have to know your ground.

It's not even necessary to be an expert on any given period of history.

However, for a historical novel set in France in 1924, it must be anchored in time and place. The Olympics were held in France in 1924, the Tour de France would be happening,
everyone would have heard of the Flying Finn, and France had a new President.

There were certain political attitudes, the arts were at a certain stage, and technology and culture had reached a certain stage of development.

Some of the links are simple, finding fresh names, checking geography and transportation, maps, places, terrain.

Every so often I want to check my understanding of a word--'pension,' for example, which was from something I had read years or decades ago.

Here are some but by no means all of the resources used in the making of Architect of His Own Destruction, the fourth in the Maintenon Mystery Series.



Events in 1924


Summer Olympics


Paavo Nurmi


World Events


World Events History Orb


World Events


Boy names


Girl Names


Surnames


%C3%A9mery#mw-pages

Bagneres de Luchon (Haute Garonne)


French Rail System (2014)


Haute Couture


Evening Dresses

Gare de Bagneres de Luchon




President of France June 13, 1924


Radical-Socialists



Chiappe


France in the 1920s


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwar_Period 

Radical Party

"In 1924, Radicals formed electoral alliances with the SFIO: the Cartel des Gauches (Coalition of the Left). It won the 1924 legislative election and Édouard Herriot took the head of the cabinet. But then Radicals gradually drifted to the right, moving from Radical governments supported by the non-participating Socialists to a coalition of "Republican concentration" with more conservative parties in 1926." (Wiki)

36 quai d’orfevres surete generale paris


Serial Killers Wiki


Montmartre


La Sante Prison


Minister of Justice   Antony Ratier


Timeline 1924


fascists march into rome June 17

French Communism


Nationalism and Colonial Development


The Cleveland torso killer


Arrondissements of Paris


14th arrondissement (Montparnasse)


Andre Breton


Anarchism


"Illegalists usually did not seek moral basis for their actions, recognizing only the reality of 'might' rather than 'right'; for the most part, illegal acts were done simply to satisfy personal desires, not for some greater ideal,

Dadaist Manifresto



Bodies in fridges


Tuberculosis


Pension-style apartment



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