In Paris, a bunch of famous dead people from various eras come back to life to meddle with today's Parisians. Victor Hugo has a heated argument about love, Jim Morrison mocks a tattooed vegan, Marquis de Sade seeks punishment during social unrest, Charles Baudelaire stumbles across cute kittens on social media, Rimbaud and Verlaine fire guns in a bank, Marie-Antoinette's head finds its happy place... and many more. In this novella of twenty vignettes - one per Parisian arrondissement - a dreamlike, multifaceted world offers a hilarious study of humanity and once again proves that - without a doubt - the dead have lots to say. *SPOLIER ALERT* You will also meet The Mummy, Gertrude Stein, Marie Curie, Voltaire, Napol?on Bonaparte, Boris Vian, Mikha?l Boulgakov, Jean de La Fontaine, Jos?phine Baker, Ernest Hemingway, Amedeo Modigliani, Andr? Breton, Salvador Dali, Toulouse Lautrec and Edith Piaf.
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