Jean-François Parot

Jean-François Parot, 2014

Jean-François Parot (born June 27, 1946 in Paris - † May 23, 2018 ) was a French diplomat and writer .

Life

Parot was from Paris. His mother was an assistant to the director Marcel Carné , his grandfather an employee of Abel Gance .

He attended the Lycée Michelet in his hometown , later he switched to the Lycée Henri IV . After his studies (including history and anthropology) he was a recognized specialist in the history of the 18th century , especially that of Paris.

After his military service, which he partly completed in Saint-Louis (Senegal) , he entered the diplomatic service of his country. His career took him in 1974 as Vice Consul to Kinshasa ( Democratic Republic of the Congo ), in 1982 as Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnam ), and later in the same position in Athens ( Greece ). Further stations were Doha ( Qatar ), Khartoum ( Republic of Sudan ), Djibouti ( Djibouti ) Ouagadougou ( Burkina Faso ) and Sofia ( Bulgaria ). Under Jacques Chirac , Parot was sent as ambassador to Bissau ( Guinea-Bissau ) in October 2006 .

reception

As a diplomat, Parot published a number of papers focusing on food, its distribution, and abundance and shortage in different countries.

As a novelist, he invented Nicolas Le Floch , a police superintendent in 18th century Paris. Its protagonist consists of fictional adventures, which always include real historical people and events. Le Floch's superior is Antoine de Sartine, Prefect of Police in Paris .

The success of the thirteen volumes published so far (2015) is not only evident in the translations, but also in the fact that France 2 ( France Télévisions ) filmed these novels under the title Nicolas Le Floch .

Honors

• 2005: Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
• 2006: Prix de l'Académie de Bretagne for the novel Les sang des farines
• 2007: Prix du Lion's Club for the novel Les sang des farines
• 2011: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Works

"Nicolas Le Floch" series

• Volume 1: L'énigme des Blancs-Manteux . Le Grand Livre du mois, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-286-04951-5 . (EA Paris 2000)
  • German: Commissaire Le Floch and the secret of the white coats . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-89667-573-6 .
• Volume 2: L'homme au ventre de plomb . Le Grand Livre du mois, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-286-04952-2 . (EA Paris 2000)
  • German: Commissaire Le Floch and the fountain of the dead . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-89667-572-9 .
• Volume 3: Le fantôme de la rue royale . Editions 10/18, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-264-03689-6 . (EA Paris 2001)
  • German: Commissaire Le Floch and the Phantom of the Rue Royale . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-89667-625-2 .
• Volume 4: L'affaire Nicolas Le Floch . Editions 10/18, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-264-03689-3 . (EA Paris 2002).
  • German: Commissaire Le Floch and the poison of love . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-89667-643-6 .
• Volume 5: Le crime de l'hôtel Saint-Florentin . Editions 10/18, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-264-04064-0 (EA Paris 2004).
  • German: Commissaire Le Floch and the silver hand . Blessing Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-89667-650-4 .
• Volume 6: Le sang des farines . Editions 10/18, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-264-04369-6 . (EA Paris 2005).
• Volume 7: Le cadavre anglais . Editions 10/18, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-264-04777-9 . (EA Paris 2007).
• Volume 8: Le noyé du grand canal . Editions 10/18, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-264-05080-9 . (EA Paris 2009).
• Volume 9: L'honneur de Sartine . Editions 10/18, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-264-05433-3 . (EA Paris 2010).
• Volume 10: L'enquête russe . Editions 10/18, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-264-05906-2 .
• Volume 11: L'année du volcan . Lattès, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-7096-4232-3 .
• Volume 12: La pyramide de glace . Lattès, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-7096-4616-1 .
• Volume 13: L'inconnu du pont Notre-Dame . Lattès, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-7096-5035-9 .

Non-fiction

• Structures sociales des quartiers de Grève, Saint-Avoye and Saint-Antoine. 1780-1785 . Hachette, Paris 1974.

literature

• Pascal Arizmendi: Nicolas Le Floch. Le "Tableau de Paris" by Jean-François Parot. Presses Universitaires, Perpignan 2010, ISBN 978-2-35412-063-4 .
• Jérôme Gautheret: Crimes et Courtisans. In: Le Monde . July 14, 2009, p. 18.
• Geneviève Landie, Bernard Papin, Alain Sebah: Nicolas Le Floch. An “expert” au temps des lumières . L'Harmattan, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-343-04230-5 .
• Marion Godfroy: à la table de Nicolas Le Floch . Lattès, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-7096-4872-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean-François Parot in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Jean-François Parot's website
• Nicolas Le Floch website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fabrice Drouzy: L'auteur de romans policiers historiques, père de Nicolas Le Floch, est mort here at 71 years. in: Liberation (accessed May 24, 2018)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} translated by Michael Killisch-Horn