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| 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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