1. Oscar Wilde
A Room Under Another Name
A borrowed name, Paris cafés, unpaid bills, and the narrowing of life to a hotel room.
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- 1Oscar Wilde
- 2Auguste Maquet
- 3Jeanne Beaudon (Jane Avril)
- 4Claude Chappe
- 5Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
- 6Théodore Géricault
- 7Gaspard de Prony
- 8Sophie Blanchard
- 9Godefroy Redon de Belleville
- 10Étienne-Gaspard Robertson
- 11Robert du Bourg de Bozas
- 12Marie-Anne Lenormand
- 13Henriette Caillaux
- 14Rachel Félix
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2. Auguste Maquet
The Man Who Knew Where the Story Was Going
The collaborator who could find the engine of a story and show Dumas where it should run.
3. Jeanne Beaudon (Jane Avril)
The City Inside the City
From the Salpêtrière to performance, a girl enters the hospital city and finds another way to move.
4. Claude Chappe
A Sign Against the Sky
On the heights above Paris, a machine of angles had to prove that invisible messages were not treason.
5. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
Bread Without Flour
A practical reformer working at the edge of hunger, scarcity, and the politics of food.
6. Théodore Géricault
The Raft Built Indoors
A studio becomes a wreck, and one of painting’s most famous rafts is constructed room by room.
7. Gaspard de Prony
Nothing Calculated Once
A vast calculation divided into human labour, with clerks, savants, and printers turning arithmetic into manufacture.
8. Sophie Blanchard
Where She Was Not Afraid
On the ground she was easily unsettled. In the air she was calm.
9. Godefroy Redon de Belleville
The Papers in His House
A life reconstructed through papers kept, sorted, and left behind in a house full of evidence.
10. Étienne-Gaspard Robertson
The Man Who Measured Shadows
Scientific apparatus, ghostly projection, and a Paris room where disbelief could still tremble.
11. Robert du Bourg de Bozas
The Wrong Road
An expedition, a missed route, and the fatal geography of a journey gone wrong.
12. Marie-Anne Lenormand
The Future Had a Price
Clients brought worry, ambition, and curiosity to a room where the future could be sold.
13. Henriette Caillaux
The Woman in the Waiting Room
A waiting room at Le Figaro becomes the last quiet place before a political scandal breaks open.
14. Rachel Félix
Two Hundred Nights
A star on a punishing American tour, measured in contracts, illness, and two hundred performances.