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Little demon in the city of light: a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris

By Steven , Bompard , Gabrielle;Eyraud , Michel;Gouffé , Augustin Toussaint;Levingston

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Anchor Books
ISBN
9780385536035, 9780385536042, 9780307950307, 0307950301
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4179599 bytes)
Edition
First Anchor books edition
Pages
333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustra
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1840-1889;Eyraud-- 1843-1891;Bompard-- 1868-1920;Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case stuAugustin ToussaintGabrielleHISTORY--Europe--France;Manners and customs;MurderMichel

Description

"The thrilling--and so wonderfully French--story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official by a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress, an international manhunt, a sensational trial, and an inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power. In France at the end of the nineteenth century a great debate raged over the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Alexandre-Toussaint Gouffe entered a Parisian building at 3 rue Tronson Ducoudray for what he thought would be a delightful assignation with the comely young Gabrielle Bompard, only to be murdered--hanged!--by her and her ruthless companion Michel Eyraud, stuffed in a trunk, and dumped on a riverbank near Lyon, that question became the burning center of an inquiry into the guilt or innocence of a woman the French tabloids dubbed "The Little Demon."--

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