Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d' tat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand program of urban reconstruction, replaced by Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government,...
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