Seeking the Da Vinci Code

Author: [UK] Peter Kean
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This is a Paris travel guidebook written entirely around Dan Brown's famous novel The Da Vinci Code. All locations in the novel are detailed in this guide: Saint-Sulpice Church, the Louvre, the American University, the Ritz Hotel, Place Vend?me, the Chateau de Villiers, and the Cathedral of Chartres, leaving no location untouched. This guide helps you discover Paris from a completely new perspective. It takes readers to the main locations mentioned in the novel, providing keys to uncover the mysteries set by Dan Brown in the story. It also describes the history and current state of these locations and offers many practical tips, as well as clues to other mysterious places. For readers who want to delve deeper into The Da Vinci Code, this is an essential supplementary guide and a comprehensive manual.
In The Da Vinci Code, the author Brown connects these mysterious symbols and sends his protagonist, Robert Langdon, to explore a code that will lead him to uncover one of history's greatest and most closely guarded secrets. This book takes you to the places he visited and reveals some of the hidden secrets within them. Even if you haven’t read The Da Vinci Code, you’ll be drawn to this guide, as it will take you into the mysterious and enigmatic aspects of Paris. Of course, if you have read The Da Vinci Code, you’ll relive the thrilling scenes of the novel as the story unfolds, and you’ll learn how some of the perplexing questions Brown raises are connected to certain locations and relics he mentions.
This book aims to be a complete manual, covering the history and background of all locations mentioned in The Da Vinci Code, providing practical knowledge, and introducing extraordinary, mysterious, or esoteric monuments and gathering places. We will also uncover or provide clues to the mysteries woven by Brown into his novel, such as the existence of Haxo Street (Haxo), which does exist but not near Roland-Garros tennis center as Brown described, nor does it have a number 24 or the Zurich Savings Bank. Haxo was originally a variant of Hoax!