Religious fanatics, decapitation and torrents of blood on innocents convened to a wedding. Mysterious lairs where the powerful concoct discrete poisons to silently and anonymously dispatch their political enemies be it for wearing their favorite pair of gloves or smelling a wonderful rose. No it is not some dark corner of the Middle-East or some somber alley of an internal security agency. All this happens in the streets of Paris, in France, on August 22, 1572. Michel Zévaco in his Pardaillan novels had anticipated the birth of the Super Hero. The Pardaillans, father and son, have super powers; those of deduction, they ignore temptations and can defy and defeat the most powerful figures of their time, the Guise and the Montmorency families whose internal struggles declare an open civil war between Catholics and Protestants and of course Catherine of Medicis, Queen of France. ( )