Author: Leonard Wolf
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 9780517540619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Relies on contemporary accounts of Bluebeard, scholarship since then, and a knowledge of human nature to depict the life and character of an infamous man who took pleasure in raping, torturing, murdering, and dismembering children
Bluebeard, the Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais
Author: Leonard Wolf
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 9780517540619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Relies on contemporary accounts of Bluebeard, scholarship since then, and a knowledge of human nature to depict the life and character of an infamous man who took pleasure in raping, torturing, murdering, and dismembering children
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 9780517540619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Relies on contemporary accounts of Bluebeard, scholarship since then, and a knowledge of human nature to depict the life and character of an infamous man who took pleasure in raping, torturing, murdering, and dismembering children
Alias Bluebeard
Author: Emile Gabory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serial murderers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serial murderers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Real Bluebeard
Author: Jean Benedetti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750934480
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This work aims to get behind the myths and present the real Bluebeard, Gilles de Rais, one of the most enduring baddies of history. His infamy lives on, the precursor of our own time's serial killers and a founding father of the cult of the child-snatching bogeyman.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750934480
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This work aims to get behind the myths and present the real Bluebeard, Gilles de Rais, one of the most enduring baddies of history. His infamy lives on, the precursor of our own time's serial killers and a founding father of the cult of the child-snatching bogeyman.
Bluebeard
Author: Leonard Wolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517530214
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Psychologisch portret van Gilles de Rais.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517530214
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Psychologisch portret van Gilles de Rais.
Bluebeard
Author: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serial murderers
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serial murderers
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Trial of Gilles de Rais
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: Amok Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Written by France's famous connoisseur of transgression - the man the surrealist Andre Breton labelled an 'Excremental philosopher' - THE TRIALS OF GILLES DE RAIS is the best thing now available in English on one of the most bizarre figures in European history.' - New York Times Book Review'
Publisher: Amok Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Written by France's famous connoisseur of transgression - the man the surrealist Andre Breton labelled an 'Excremental philosopher' - THE TRIALS OF GILLES DE RAIS is the best thing now available in English on one of the most bizarre figures in European history.' - New York Times Book Review'
Gilles de Rais
Author: Jean Benedetti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
An account of the man known as Bluebeard, who championed Joan of Arc and later in life committed a series of sex crimes for which he was ultimately hanged and burned in 1440.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
An account of the man known as Bluebeard, who championed Joan of Arc and later in life committed a series of sex crimes for which he was ultimately hanged and burned in 1440.
Gilles de Rais
Author: Louis Vincent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"An account of a veritable devil in human guise, aristocrat, millionaire and murderer, one of the most astounding personalities of which history holds record"--Dust jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"An account of a veritable devil in human guise, aristocrat, millionaire and murderer, one of the most astounding personalities of which history holds record"--Dust jacket.
The Original Blue-Beard - The History of Gilles De Retz
Author: Thomas Wilson
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528792335
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
“The Original Blue-Beard - The History of Gilles De Retz” is Thomas Wilson's 1899 biography of Gilles de Rais (1405–1440), a French knight and lord who led the French army and was one of Joan of Arc's companion-in-arms. Rais lived an extravagant life and even dabbled in the occult before being hanged for a series of child murders in 1440 in Nantes. It is believed that Rais was the inspiration for "Bluebeard", a French folktale of a wealthy man who murders all of his wives but his last, whose brothers finally put an end to him and his terrible crimes. Contents include: “Gilles De Retz”, “Gilles as a Soldier”, “Gille’s Life at Home in Brittany”, “Gilles’s Crimes”, “Gilles’s Trial Before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal”, “The Trial Before the Civil Court”, “The Execution”, “Mother Goose Publications”, “Bluebeard Stories”, “Mystery of the Siege of Orleans”, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic biography now in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography from “Encyclopaedia Britannica” (1911).
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528792335
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
“The Original Blue-Beard - The History of Gilles De Retz” is Thomas Wilson's 1899 biography of Gilles de Rais (1405–1440), a French knight and lord who led the French army and was one of Joan of Arc's companion-in-arms. Rais lived an extravagant life and even dabbled in the occult before being hanged for a series of child murders in 1440 in Nantes. It is believed that Rais was the inspiration for "Bluebeard", a French folktale of a wealthy man who murders all of his wives but his last, whose brothers finally put an end to him and his terrible crimes. Contents include: “Gilles De Retz”, “Gilles as a Soldier”, “Gille’s Life at Home in Brittany”, “Gilles’s Crimes”, “Gilles’s Trial Before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal”, “The Trial Before the Civil Court”, “The Execution”, “Mother Goose Publications”, “Bluebeard Stories”, “Mystery of the Siege of Orleans”, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic biography now in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography from “Encyclopaedia Britannica” (1911).
Gilles de Rais
Author: Jean Benedetti
Publisher: London : P. Davies
ISBN: 9780432012154
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Publisher: London : P. Davies
ISBN: 9780432012154
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description