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The Paris Meridian
Paperback
Series: Stories You Can Walk, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2026
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Paris has always known how to keep a secret.
It has had two thousand years of practice.
Dr Isabelle Moreau came to the Bibliothèque nationale to assess a manuscript no one had looked at closely in decades.
What she finds inside it has been waiting two hundred and twenty-eight years to be found.
A hidden document. A coded medallion in the Paris pavement. And a discovery that reaches from a wartime reading room to the foundations of the city's oldest scientific institution.
When an encrypted vellum leaf leads Isabelle through the archives, monuments and hidden history of Paris, she uncovers evidence that the network protecting the world's most dangerous knowledge ran through the French capital for two thousand years - and that the Paris Meridian, France's claim to be the reference point of the known world, was always the key. But a powerful cultural institution believes the discovery belongs to France alone. And a fraudulent restitution claim is already in motion to take the document before Isabelle can understand what she holds.
Joined by Thomas Ashworth, a London lawyer who arrived in Paris representing the wrong client and must decide where his real obligations lie, Isabelle follows the trail through the Bibliothèque nationale, the Palais Royal, the Île de la Cité, the Mémorial de la Shoah, the catacombs beneath the city and the foundation chamber of the Paris Observatory.
The closer they get to the truth, the more it costs.
Because what is hidden in Paris is not only a document.
It is a copy of the founding covenant of the greatest library the ancient world ever built - placed here, in the city that insisted it was the centre of everything, by someone who understood that no single city ever is.
And the final clue points beyond the Seine - to a city where the same principle was encoded into the proportions of a building that has been standing in plain sight for nineteen centuries.
The Paris Meridian is a historical mystery and adventure set in one of the world's most storied cities, combining real locations, authentic history and fiction in a story that invites readers to see Paris differently.
Includes Paris, For Real, an exclusive feature revealing the real locations, monuments and historical facts behind the story - allowing you to follow Isabelle and Thomas's journey through the French capital yourself.
Read the story. Walk the city.
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