Flamboyance: The Art of Burning BrightlyJack Parlett, Granta, £18.99FLAMBOYANCE might be a state we aspire to (after a few jars, in Jack Parlett’s admitted case) or an action described in stone.Fresh out of the gate Parlett outlines how the gallic Eustache-Hyacinth Langlois used the verb “flamboyer” — to blaze — in its present participle “flamboyant,” to categorise awesome gothic masonry. This happened in Rouen in 1825.