![]() Basing his plot on the Elizabethan “priest holes,” when architects concocted camouflaged spots where priests could hide from their oppressors, Belfoure imagines doing the same inside Paris mansions. ![]() A wealthy aristocrat hires Lucien Bernard to build secret hiding places for Jews fleeing from the Gestapo. The Paris architect, struggling to earn a living in a time of war, finds himself caught between two sides. Both are filled with insider knowledge about the artistry and craft of architecture and about the sorts of men who choose such a career. Later he wrote The Fallen Architect, which occurs in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. His first was The Paris Architect, which takes place during the German occupation of Paris in 1942. ![]() Paris and Fallen Architects – Two novels, one author, an architect by training, a novelist by inclination.Īn architect by training and a novelist by inclination, Charles Belfoure has written two narratives that feature protagonists who are architects. ![]()
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