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Documents the brutal 1889 murder of a lascivious court official by a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress, tracing the ensuing manhunt and sensational trial against period debates about whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit crimes.
"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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Social life and customs, Murder, Case studies, Paris (France), TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, PSYCHOLOGY / HypnotismPeople
Gabrielle Bompard (1868-1920), Michel Eyraud (1843-1891), Augustin Toussaint Gouffé (1840-1889)Places
Paris, Paris (France), FranceTimes
19th centuryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder in Belle Époque Paris
2015, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
in English
0307950301 9780307950307
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Little demon in the city of light: a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris
2014, Doubleday
in English
- First edition.
0385536038 9780385536035
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