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Description edit
Seven studies of murder ranging from the 1850s to the 1940s, all committed in France. True crime.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Jean-Louis Verger: A clergyman horrified by the Papal Bull concerning the divinity of the Virgin Mary
- Joseph Vacher: a hard-luck case with a bit of a facial disfigurement
- Henri Girard: the press called him the "first scientific murderer"
- Henriette Caillaux: a woman with a very unhappy early life
- Michel Henriot: a Breton considered a bit feeble by his neighbors
- Marcel Petiot: an MD who offered to get Jews safely away from Nazi-occupied France for a fee
- Bernardy De Sigoyer: a real, live French marquis
Quotes edit
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“I must ask all decent women to withdraw...Now that the decent women have left the court, the officials will remove the others.”
presiding judge at the Vacher trial
First Sentence edit
No activity, however decorous, seems to be quite free from its own variety of occupational peril.
Table of Contents edit
INTRODUCTION
I. Murder On Principle -- Jean-Louis Verger (1826-57)
II. Murder In Solitude -- Joseph Vacher (1869-98)
III. Murder With Mushrooms -- Henri Girard (1875-1921)
IV. Murder In High Plces -- Henriette Caillaux (1978-1943)
V. Murder By Consent -- Michel Henriot (1910-45)
VI. Murder For Profit -- Marcel Petiot (1897-1946)
VII. Murder By A Gentleman -- Bernardy de Sigoyer (1905-47)
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime-historical. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: By Region. (community list)
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