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Introduced as one of Agnes Poirier's books when she is presented as a guest on the podcast, described as 'a really fabulous book' covering the Second World War and recovery period

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Introduced as Agnes Poirier's second book when she is presented as a guest, written in the aftermath of the Notre Dame fire

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Agnes Poirier mentions 'a fantastic portrait of Fouché' by 'Stephen Schweick' (Stefan Zweig), describing it as 'the most remarkable book about, in a way, the first French policeman' in discussion of Paris's murky police history

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Dominic mentions having 'this mad idea of reading all Zola's Rougon-Macquart sequence' when discussing the Paris of classic 19th century French novels

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Dominic references this novel when expressing his preference for late 19th century Paris over the Paris of Proust and Picasso

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Agnes mentions that 'de Gaulle talks about this moment, obviously, in his memoirs' when describing how de Gaulle remained calm during the sniper attack at Notre Dame during the Liberation of Paris