In her sixth novel, Le Jeune Homme au bras fantôme/the young man with the phantom arm (Le Passage publishing house, august 2021) Hélène Bonafous-Murat explores the changing face of 19th century Paris. The plot is rooted in the Transnonain Street Massacre (1834), which was the subject of a famous lithograph by Daumier. It depicts the business and classified...
