A shock exploration conducted many train

Is not wanting in the area of the historic polar. The originality of the subject is paramount. Blow on blow, two writers are their intrigues in Paris from the end of the 19th century (which is not uncommon), at the time where medicine is concerned about the infant Psychiatry (which is not trivial).

On the cover of "obscura", of Régis Descott, a detail of the "luncheon on the grass" of Edouard Manet, famous canvas which caused scandal when it was unveiled, intrigue. The answer, in the early chapters, is also unexpected that horrible: is discovered, in a Provencal remains unoccupied, a re-enactment of the table with corpses. The case dates back to a Parisian doctor, Jean Corbel, brings the confidences he made one of his patients, a prostitute who told him to call Obscura: one of his clients made him take the installation of "olympia" still Manet. While several young girls in the sprawling city disappear from unexplained manner. A common point between them, however: they resemble Victorine Meurant, the favorite model of Manet.

The Enigma, which risk to play not only his life, but even that of his companion, Sibylle, actress starter, Corbel will seek to resolve with the help of Gérard, friend doctor and alienist, who works in the clinic of the famous Dr. Blanche (one even nursed Gérard de Nerval), which, in addition to its qualities of practitioner, is a large amateur of painting.

Where it begins and where the Madness stops Can what reports maintain with the creation and art, and art with death Régis Descott queries over a story which does not hesitate to lead the reader in the corners the darker, more mysterious and most terrifying of the human spirit. A shock exploration, conducted many train.

Mental illnesses

This is not a hero but a heroin leading dance in "The mortuary room", of Jean-Luc Bizien. Sarah Engelwood, young and charming English penniless residing in Paris, must, after a disastrous sentimental experience, find work. Dr. Simon Bloomberg, who hired him as an Assistant, is a strange character who lives in a strange House in the rue Mazarine, crowded objects collected by his wife, Egyptologist, and crossed through the Middle by a cage containing two chimpanzees.

While Jean-Martin Charcot continued his experiments at the Salpêtrière, Bloomberg looks, too, on mental illness, disavowed (but also jalousé doubt) by his colleagues. confident that the confinement of the insane, is not a solution, he prefers her freedom under supervision and assistance of drugs he uses elsewhere in its service Ulysses, a colossus that it heals and fully dedicated.

Bizien, creator of role-playing games and author of books for youth, known household effects; never the plot relaxes, and issues accumulate: where is the wife of Bloomberg, real Arlésienne talking about and never seen That means the different murders bloody capital and have all the air to be the work of a cult The Inspector Léonce Desnoyers and his Deputy, Raoul Mesnard, are on the runway. Sarah, courted by a friend of Bloomberg, will be in the eye of the cyclone. All ends well, reassure you, in the pure tradition of the was. Until foot closes a next episode.