Editing Under the Net (section)

===Chapters 14–16: Paris===
In Paris, Jake is amazed to discover that Jean-Pierre Breteuil's latest novel, ''Nous les Vainqueurs'', has won the [[Prix Goncourt]], and having dismissed Breteuil's work for so long he is amazed and envious. Madge's offer turns out to be a kind of film industry sinecure, and he finds himself refusing it with distaste for reasons that he cannot explain.

He realises that it is [[Bastille Day]], and he wanders the city for hours in a daze. In the evening, he is watching fireworks when he sees Anna. He tries to follow her, but the crowd impedes him. He nearly catches up with her in a park, after she leaves her shoes to walk barefoot on the grass. But he briefly loses sight of her, and the woman he accosts is not her.

Jake returns to London the next morning to find that Lyrebird has won at long odds, 20–1. Finn has taken his share of the money and disappeared. Several torpid days of inactivity follow, to the despair of Dave.