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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Levingston, Steven.     Subjects     Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.     Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.     Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.     Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.     Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Levingston, Steven.       by title:      Little demon in the ...         MARC Display

Little demon in the City of Light : a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris / Steven Levingston. by Levingston, Steven. New York : Doubleday, c2014. Subjects Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.   Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.   Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.   Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.   Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780385536035 (hbk.) : 0385536038 (hbk.) Description:  333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First Edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 364.1523 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Levingston Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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