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  • Levingston, Steven.
     
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  • Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.
     
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  • Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.
     
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  • Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.
     
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  • Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.
     
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  • Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
     
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    Little demon in the City of Light : a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris / Steven Levingston.
    by Levingston, Steven.
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    New York : Doubleday, c2014.
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  • Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.
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  • Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.
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  • Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.
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  • Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.
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  • Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
  • ISBN: 
    9780385536035 (hbk.) :
    0385536038 (hbk.)
    Description: 
    333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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    First Edition.
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    "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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    Hawaii State LibrarySocial Science & Philosophy364.1523 LeChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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