Little demon in the City of Light : a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle âEpoque Paris / Steven Levingston.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2014]Edition: First EditionDescription: 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780385536035
- 0385536038
- 364.152/3092 23
- HV6535.F8 P364 2014
- TRU002000 | HIS013000 | PSY035000
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Books | Leesburg Public Library | Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 364.1523 Lev | 1 | Available | 33099003866616 |
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333).
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