The Prefect, The Model, and the Student During the summer of 1893, what started as a small protest in Paris nearly became a revolution. When I first learned of these facts—quite by accident, as it is rare to find them mentioned in any ordinary history book—they fascinated me so entirely that it became the primary nail on which I hung the starting date of the Callahan Chronicles . Though the story twisted in ways I never expected, the reason the Callahan Chronicles begin in 18