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The Exploits of Z nobe Bosquet, a Virtuous Young Atheist, & of Monsieur Wagni re, His Fellow Librarian an historical novel by Roy Luna, professor of French Language and Literature at the Key Largo Campus of the Florida Keys International College, with historical notes provided by Dr. Theophilus Ralph, professor of History at the University of M nster, Thunder-den-Drang Campus, Westphalia, Germany. This is the second volume of the trilogy, A Revolutionary Education, which tells of the picaresque adventures and travails of the secretaries of the recently deceased Voltaire. They must find the courage and stamina to defend and protect the philosopher's library sold to Catherine the Great of Russia, through dangerous lands and treacherous seas, where brigands, tyrants and storms threaten to steal, burn, or send Voltaire's books to the bottom of the sea.

The Exploits of Z nobe Bosquet, a Virtuous Young Atheist, & of Monsieur Wagni re, His Fellow Librarian an historical novel by Roy Luna, professor of French Language and Literature at the Key Largo Campus of the Florida Keys International College, with historical notes provided by Dr. Theophilus Ralph, professor of History at the University of M nster, Thunder-den-Drang Campus, Westphalia, Germany. This is the second volume of the trilogy, A Revolutionary Education, which tells of the picaresque adventures and travails of the secretaries of the recently deceased Voltaire. They must find the courage and stamina to defend and protect the philosopher's library sold to Catherine the Great of Russia, through dangerous lands and treacherous seas, where brigands, tyrants and storms threaten to steal, burn, or send Voltaire's books to the bottom of the sea.

A man suddenly discovers that he has been possessed, but not by any demon. There's another person now sharing his mind, but the mental squatter is quiet and polite and, in a German accent, asks his host nicely to help him locate his missing body. Together they go on a voyage of discovery: outwardly, to look for the intruder's physical presence; inwardly, to explore the meaning of friendship and the power of empathy. The only similarity attaching these reluctant soul mates together is that they are both university professors in their respective cities, Miami and Regensburg. After transatlantic flights to France, where both had been vacationing, they succeed in finding out how it came to be that one consciousness came to squat inside the other. But the fact that the host is gay and the outsider is not adds a layer of complexity to their relationship, especially when they reveal their secret to their spouses.

Humans always assumed that they were masters of the Earth, overseers of Nature, and that they could take from the planet and their fellow creatures everything they always wanted. There was no one to tell them that they couldn't. Up until now. Homo sapiens' custodianship of the planet and of all its myriad life forms has proved that not only are they not as sapiens as they deem themselves to be, but they are in dire need of a superior and more intelligent life force to give them their comeuppance. Swoop in the fairies, who have been here all along, but who quickly learned back in the days of homo neanderthalis, erectus, and habilis, that to show themselves to hominids meant certain death. Evolved before the split between reptiles and birds, fairies learned to hide through spectacular mimicry and perfect camouflage as defensive mechanisms against the destructive forces of the egomaniacal homo sapiens. Had they not, they would be extinct. With humans on a rampage, fairies tried for eons to heal the harm that men wrought, undo their spoliation and, whenever they could, secretly sabotage their plans. But when men's devastation reached a critical mass, the fairies were forced to intercede more directly. The fairies are not hiding anymore. They are out, undisguised, and noticeably enraged. They are out in full force to save us from ourselves, and thereby save our planet. They, of all creatures on earth, know how to stop humans in their disastrous tracks. Homo sapiens better not get in their way. Fata sapiens are here and are now in control.

Humans always assumed that they were masters of the Earth, overseers of Nature, and that they could take from the planet and their fellow creatures everything they always wanted. There was no one to tell them that they couldn't. Up until now. Homo sapiens' custodianship of the planet and of all its myriad life forms has proved that not only are they not as sapiens as they deem themselves to be, but they are in dire need of a superior and more intelligent life force to give them their comeuppance. Swoop in the fairies, who have been here all along, but who quickly learned back in the days of homo neanderthalis, erectus, and habilis, that to show themselves to hominids meant certain death. Evolved before the split between reptiles and birds, fairies learned to hide through spectacular mimicry and perfect camouflage as defensive mechanisms against the destructive forces of the egomaniacal homo sapiens. Had they not, they would be extinct. With humans on a rampage, fairies tried for eons to heal the harm that men wrought, undo their spoliation and, whenever they could, secretly sabotage their plans. But when men's devastation reached a critical mass, the fairies were forced to intercede more directly. The fairies are not hiding anymore. They are out, undisguised, and noticeably enraged. They are out in full force to save us from ourselves, and thereby save our planet. They, of all creatures on earth, know how to stop humans in their disastrous tracks. Homo sapiens better not get in their way. Fata sapiens are here and are now in control.