Lyon
- 2022
Live FastVivre vite
1999: a new house in Lyon, a borrowed motorbike, and the chain of chances that killed him.
- 2011
The French Art of WarL’Art français de la guerre
A drifter in Lyon learns to paint from an old paratrooper of Indochina and Algeria.
- 1986
L’Enfer
August in an empty, overheated Lyon: a pianist ready to die is drawn into a kidnapping.
- 1984
Outwitting the GestapoIls partiront dans l’ivresse
1943: nine months in Lyon as a pregnant teacher plots to free her husband from Barbie.
- 1943
120, rue de la Gare
Back from a prisoner-of-war camp, Nestor Burma sees his partner shot at Perrache station.
- 1928
La Gerbe d’or
1890s: a childhood in his father’s bakery in the old streets between Saône and Rhône.
- 1838
Memoirs of a TouristMémoires d’un touriste
An iron merchant’s tour of the provinces, from Lyon and Avignon to Nantes and Grenoble.