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Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau

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born

June 07, 1957 in Paris, France

gender

female

genre

Science, History

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Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (often mistakenly spelled "Audouin-Rouzeau") is a French historian, archaeologist and writer (also known under her pseudonym of Fred Vargas for the fictional part of her opus). She is the daughter of Philippe Audoin(-Rouzeau), a surrealist writer who was close to André Breton, and the sister of the historian Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, a noted specialist of the First World War.

Archeo-zoologist and historian by trade, she undertook a project on the epidemiology of the Black Death and bubonic plague, the result of which was a scientific work published in 2003 and still considered definitive in this research area: Les chemins de la peste : Le rat la puce et l'homme (Pest Roads).

As a novelist, she writes mostly crime stor...more