What if the young Dauphin Louis Charles, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had not died in a cell in the notorious "Temple" prison but was smuggled out of the prison and grew to adulthood. That is the premise of this novel. Vidocq, chief of the new plainclothes police force disrupts the quiet life of Hector Carpentier after mistaking him for his late father, a physician while investigating a murder. The senior Carpentier had treated the sick prince in the Temple. Did he, with the help of others, carry him out of the prison inside a hobby horse? If not, then who is the gentle young man rescued by Vidocq and the younger Carpentier? The story has lots of twists and puzzles and the ending leaves you wondering if something like that could have happened and how it would have changed history.
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