Francis Walder (originally Waldburger) was born in Brussels in 1906. He trained at the Royal Military Academy there, and in WWII was a prisoner of war in Germany for five years. After the war he represented the Belgian Army in diplomatic negotiations. While an officer, he wrote a few philosophical texts, but it was in retirement that he published historical novels, beginning with Saint-Germain, ou la Négociation (Prix Goncourt 1958) and later Une Lettre de Voiture (1962) and Chaillot ou la Coexistence (1967). He died in Paris in 1997.
Jacques Albert, baryton d'opéra, chante dans les salons parisiens de la fin du siècle dernier, souvent accompagné au piano par sa femme Martha. Jusqu'à ce que Cotter Morison, un Américain de passage, fasse lire à celle-ci un roman énigmatique par lequel il l'incite à tromper son...
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