Download or read book Bluebeard the Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais written by Leonard Wolf and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1980 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Alias Bluebeard written by Emile Gabory and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bluebeard written by Leonard Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologisch portret van Gilles de Rais.

Download or read book Gilles de Rais written by Jean Benedetti and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Trial of Gilles de Rais written by Georges Bataille and published by Amok Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'

Download or read book Bluebeard written by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Original Blue Beard The History of Gilles De Retz written by Thomas Wilson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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).

Download or read book The Life and Crimes of Gilles De Rais written by Leonard Wolf and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bluebeard written by Valerie Ogden and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulously wealthy 15th-century French aristocrat, A Marshal of France, a celebrated war hero, a true Renaissance man, and an overt homosexual turned into a mass murderer. Gilles de Rais became known as "Bluebeard" with his ghastly dabbling in the Black Arts, extreme depravity, shocking fall from grace, and explosive end reading like a blockbuster movie.

Download or read book Gilles de Rais written by Jean Benedetti and published by London : P. Davies. This book was released on 1971 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Satanic Alchemy written by Candice Black and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectre of Gilles de Rais, the Satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. His obscene crimes and sinister aristocratic glamour reminds of a mediaeval Hannibal Lecter. Satanic Alchemy is a testament to the legend of Gilles de Rais and his status as history's first ever Devil-worshipping serial killer. With essays from some of the most fertile imaginations in writing, as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais' life, this book is a rich evocation of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.

Download or read book The Martyrdom of Gilles de Rais written by Margot K. Juby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilles de Rais was executed on October 26th 1440 for a string of offences including heresy, black magic, sodomy and murder. He was revered as a saint for three hundred years after his death. Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, he has quite wrongly been regarded as the inspiration for Perrault's Bluebeard. What are we to make of such contradictions? Historians have long assumed that the life and death of Gilles de Rais had been thoroughly researched and held no secrets. The converse was the case. Properly examined, the dry court documents are full of contradiction and absurdity. Many supposed facts, on close scrutiny, turn out to be pure fiction. Unimportant characters sidle from the shadows, having turned out to be spies. Important ones may never even have existed. In 1992, there was an unofficial retrial, spearheaded by the novelist Gilbert Prouteau. Gilles was spectacularly acquitted, but there has been a great deal of controversy about what many see as a jape or a publicity stunt and his reputation remains in limbo. Was he a saint, or the Devil incarnate? History is undecided.The purpose of this book is to scrutinize the generally accepted account of Gilles' life, including the evidence given at his trial, to expose the commonly believed myths and to posit a more credible alternative narrative. There is a much stronger case for his innocence to be made than that put forward in 1992. However, this is not simply a rehash for English readers of the arguments put forward by various French writers. It is a work of original research. In addition, since existing biographies are inaccurate and patchy, it is an attempt at a truly encyclopaedic account of the life of Gilles de Rais. Everything you always wanted to know about Gilles de Rais (but were afraid to ask), if you like. All the facts are there, as well as all the lies and legends. This is not a conventional biography. But Gilles de Rais was no conventional man.

Download or read book Gilles de Rais written by A. L. Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.

Download or read book The Real Bluebeard written by Jean Benedetti and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Bluebeard written by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Download or read book The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais written by Robert Nye and published by Abacus. This book was released on 1991-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recreation of the Bluebeard story which follows a French Army captain, executed in Brittany in 1440. The list of his crimes include witchcraft, heresy, sacrilege, sorcery, the evocations of demons and the practice of unnatural crime against children, ending with their murder for his delight.

Download or read book Alias Bluebeard written by Emile Gabory and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.