Book of Secrets (2007)
The Laboulaye Lady, Paris
From the film · 00:26:00
“Across the sea, these twins stand resolute, to preserve what we are looking for. Laboulaye, 1876.”
Paris, Ben on a small island in the middle of the Seine; Riley on a phone failing to fix the Ferrari
What we know
The 1889 Statue of Liberty replica on the Île aux Cygnes, near the Pont de Grenelle
The torch of the Île aux Cygnes Liberty bears an engraved inscription left by Laboulaye himself, dated 1876 — the centennial of the Declaration. The inscription names "the twins" and tells us they "stand resolute." Two clues at once: the word "twins" tells us there are two of something, identical; the word "resolute," a deliberate capital R when read in Laboulaye's hand, tells us those twins were built from a ship called the Resolute. The ship is HMS Resolute, abandoned in the Arctic in 1854, salvaged by an American whaler in 1855, returned to England in 1856, and then — when she was finally retired — used as the timber for two desks. One went to a President. One stayed at home.
The Puzzle
Laboulaye’s inscription names twins built from a single ship. HMS Resolute’s timber was used to make desks. Pick the two desks that came from the same hull.
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