The Aimee Leduc Companion

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    Dédé (“an old-fashioned mec who’s got a finger in every pot”)
    de Froissart, Anaïs (old friend of Aimée’s ; Martine Sitbon is her sister), husband Philippe (minister of some department or other), daughter Simone
    Denet, Jules (baker, lives near the explosion)
    Dominique (preschool teacher at the hostage site)
    Elymani, Hassan (custodian/security guard)
    Fouaz, Samia ( Zdanine’s wife; Morbier’s daughter with Mouna ), son Marcus (later Marc )
    Geoffroy, Abbé (at Notre-Dame de la Croix)
    Gilles ( Martine’s former boss and lover)
    Grandet, Eugénie (alias for Sylvie Coudray , or vice-versa)
    Guittard, Olivier (minister of some department or other)
    Hamid, Mustafa (Alliance Federation Liberation leader)
    Inés (waitress at Café des Artistes)
    Jouvenal (cop at Charonne commissariat, old colleague of Morbier and Jean-Claude’s)
    Khalil ( Zdanine’s cousin)
    LeMoine (chief of operations at the hostage scene)
    Martaud, Sgt. (20 th arrondissement)
    Monique (waitress at Les Fous de L’Isle bistro around the corner from Aimée’s apartment)
    Mouna (old girlfriend of Morbier’s , mother of their daughter Samia ), killed accidentally in 1992 riots
    Muktar (one of the bad guys from the circus)
    Nedelec, Lucien (undersecretary of some department or other)
    Nwar, Kaseem (Algerian businessman)
    Polar, Franck (taxi driver)
    Rachid (hostage-taker)
    Roberge, Pierre (appraiser at Mikimoto)
    Roxanne ( Martine’s assistant at Le Figaro)
    Sidi, Djeloul ( Mustafa Hamid’s brother)
    Valat, Lt. Gaston (owner of Café Tlemcen)
    Vedrine, Lt. (equipment person at hostage scene)
    Visse, Madame (local Belleville resident), son Edouard , his wife Yolande
    Vivienne ( Anaïs’s maid)
    Walid (mullah, assistant to Hamid )
    Youssefa ( Eugénie’s contact); she’s from Oran, and she limps
    Yves ( Aimée’s last boyfriend, now Cairo correspondent for Le Figaro)
    Zdanine ( Samia’s pimp; Marc’s father; also a plastique explosives supplier)

    Belleville

    1. Cafe Tlemcen, rue des Cascades. A false start, but not in the long run.
    2. The right place at the wrong time: 20 bis, rue Jean Moinon.
    3. Goncourt Métro stop: a new way of running red lights.
    4. Home to Anaïs and Philippe de Froissart, 15, villa Georgina.
    5. Nôtre Dame de la Croix, place de Menilmontant.
    7. An ear-witness and his bird, 34, rue Ste-Marthe.
    8. B. Berge’s old apartment, rue de l’Orillon.
    9. A clear address full of mystery; 78, pl de Guignier. Before Aimée can enter, she’s whisked off to … (see #10)

    10. A meeting with Philippe and one of his “associates” on the Quai de Jemmapes.
    11. Lunch with Morbier, and a lesson to a local.
    12. Samia’s apartment and the hammam at which she works.
    13. Cirque d’Hiver. Their magicians seem to specialize in making people disappear.
    14. Café des Artistes, behind the Cirque d’Hiver, beefsteak for the up.
    15. After picking Samia up at Impasse Ouestre, a heart-to-heart with her in the Passage de la Fondérie.
    16. Place Chevalier, where the CRS buses are waiting.
    17. Café “la Vielleuse,” owned by Dédé, who knows everyone and has a hand in everything.

    18. Evading thugs, via the coal chute.
    19. Terrasse Belvedere, Parc de Belleville: a great view of Paris and of Dédé’s two “associates.”
    20. EuroPhoto, rue Ménilmontant: not just family photos.
    21. Edith Piaf, rue Crespin du Gast. Escaping on the wings of a sparrow.
    22. École maternelle, rue de l’Ermitage.
    23.Cimitière de Belleville: last setting to rights.

    A. Parc de Belleville.
    B. Cimitière Père Lachaise.
    C. Hôpital Saint-Louis.
    D: Canal Saint-Martin.
    Cara’s Belleville Picks

    Parc de Belleville: Everyone know the views from Montmartre are breathtaking. But the views from this park are fabulous, too.
    Hôtel du Nord: 102, quai Jemmapes 75010: famous for Marcel Carné’s oh-so-atmospheric movie of the same name starring the great Arletty and Louis Jouvet; well respected for its weekend brunches.
    Musée Edith Piaf: 5, rue Crespin du Gast (see #21). You must call in advance to make a reservation.

Murder in the Sentier (July 1994)

    When Aimée picks up the phone one hot July afternoon, she isn’t expecting the call to turn her life upside down. But the voice on the end, with its heavy German accent, belongs to a woman named Jutta Hald, a woman who claims to have shared a jail cell with Aimée’s long-lost mother, Sydney Leduc, who Jutta claims had been incarcerated for terrorism. If Aimée