french history in spanish

So tbh the Spanish reading this year isn't half-bad.

 First of all, it wasn't the one from the trilogy that I was expecting, instead, it's about a French revolutionist called Voltaire. Maybe you've heard of him cuz he's pretty famous, in France anyway. 

So basically the book is written in the form of emails, within the emails the main character, a professor called Roland de Luziers tries to see if the supposed "heart of Voltaire" that is kept in the national library is the real one.

 I'm about halfway through the book but until now Roland has looked for the descendants of Voltaire and tested their DNA with the one from the heart but unfortunately (and expectedly) they didn't match. Otherwise, the book would be over in the first like 60 pages. 

Then he remembered this guy he used to work with called Claude and Claude always had a theory that in Voltaire's final years, he wasn't Voltaire. And at the time Roland and a lot of others thought he was crazy for thinking that, but since he was out of options, he opted to go look for Claude and talk to him. However, when he got Claude's email from a friend he was responded by a guy called Frederic. Apparently, Frederic was a friend of Claude for 2-3 years, and they lived together for that time, but then Claude died for some reason and Frederic has been keeping an eye on his email in case any friends or family came looking for him. 

So Roland was surprised but he still flew over to where Frederic lived and looked at Claude's huge manuscript full of notes he had taken that bolstered and corroborated with his theory. So, when Claude first proposed his theory he was lacking in evidence so everyone treated him as a maniac but now Roland thinks that his theory could actually be the reality and he saw that Claude left off that the supposed "real" Voltaire was giving large sums of money to this guy called Gustave de Tamerville but no records ever mention this name. 

Therefore, Roland set off on a journey to look for this guy and find out his history and connection to Voltaire, eventually, he found his grave and that's where I stopped. well, that's basically a summary of the first one-hundred something pages. so have fun reading