The second volume of La fabrication des chiens (The Manufacture of Dogs), with the young reporter Louis Daumale.

Summer, 1899: in a Paris crushed by a heat wave, scarred by preparations for the next Universal Exposition, panicked by the plague, and divided over the Dreyfus trial, Louis Daumale, now a photographer, delivers a portrait of his contemporaries. The bicycle rules, the automobile fascinates as much as it inconveniences, the cinematograph excites, and on the second floor of the Café de Flore, far-right monarchist political movement Action française is founded while antisemites led by Jules Guérin barricade themselves in at Fort Chabrol. Tensions grow aggravated, hatred stews, colonialism rots, and the Republic totters.
As for dogs, they now have their own cemetery in Asnières, and are being trained for war…