Your question prompted me to do some research and I found this amazing true story of a former firefighter who was imprisoned then freed for allegedly deliberately choking a nonagenarian with a madeleine!
Meurtre à la madeleine pour un viager? Le suspect est reconnu innocent
Thank you for the quote! That viager thing is so odd/fascinating/morbid... (/brilliant)
Doesn’t it give people a motive for... murder?!? (Surely this is the plot of many French novels?)
Your question prompted me to do some research and I found this amazing true story of a former firefighter who was imprisoned then freed for allegedly deliberately choking a nonagenarian with a madeleine!
Meurtre à la madeleine pour un viager? Le suspect est reconnu innocent
https://www.courrier-picard.fr/id306515/article/2022-05-14/meurtre-la-madeleine-pour-un-viager-le-suspect-est-reconnu-innocent
You must write the novel
Welcome, and thank you for your wise words on the state of the nation! Yes, I find it so fascinating.
Ahahaha! Olfactory gaslighting!
Heheh 👃