Social Media researches across YouTube and through following WordPress blogs has yielded an exciting new detective fiction writer who both lives in Nantes and has set at least two of his novels in the city. The main character in the stories is Capitaine de police Isabelle Mayet who moves to Nantes in Forge’s 2014 novel, La Trace du Silure . In his next work, Un Parfum de soufre (2015) Capitaine Isabelle Mayet again investigates in the city. In a YouTube video, filmed here in Nantes, Sylvain talks about how the intrigue takes place in the Jules Verne Museum. I am ordering my copies of these and look forward to writing more on Forge’s work for my travel writing research project on Nantes. Jules Verne was born in Nantes Jules Verne was born in Nantes on 8 February 1828. It is nearly the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth. The house is marked with a bronze plaque, which I found during my stay at the Maison of Researchers. The address of the birthplace is 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisso
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