In my last blog, I discussed Prefect Henri-Auguste Lozé and the Student Riots of 1893. My readers will be far more familiar with Lozé than Lépine, having seen Lozé several times in the Callahan Chronicles up to this point, and, if they have read Grayound , will at least know the name of Louis Lépine, who is briefly introduced. In reality, the opposite is true. Lozé is hardly known, and despite a long career of faithful service to France, is remembered mostly due to his bungl

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

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