Acknowledgments

 

The tableau-piège has been buried, and another page has been turned. I’d like to thank all those who have fed my imagination. Chief Nico Sirsky will always hold a special place for them in his heart.

Jean-Marie Beney, prosecutor at the Cour d’Appel of Dijon, and professor at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Florence Berthout, general director of the Établissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette.

Dr. David Corège, chief of emergency medicine in Saône-et-Loire and medical expert for the Cour d’Appel of Dijon.

Jean-Paul Demoule, former president of the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, member of the Institut Universitaire de France, professor of European protohistory at the Université de Paris I Sorbonne-Panthéon—UFR Art et Archéologie.

Valérie Ebersohl, archivist at the Établissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette.

Tatiana Grigorieva, of the Centre Culturel de Russie de Paris.

Lucien Jougla, chief of security for the Établissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette.

Henry Moreau, police commander, chief of staff for the director of the Police Judiciare of Paris.

Dr. Lionel Yon, orthopedic surgeon.

And Lilas Seewald, my dear editor at Fayard Noir.

A wink to Bernard Müller, doctor of social anthropology, in memory of the Société pour le Déterrement du Tableau-Piège, researcher at the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux.

And a special mention to the true artist, Daniel Spoerri, whose work and excavation of his tableau-piège inspired this novel.