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Author Levingston, Steven.

Title Little demon in the City of Light : a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris / Steven Levingston.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.15230903 LEVINGSTON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 LEVINGSTON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1523 LEV    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  364.1523 LEVINGSTON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.1523 LE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-333).
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."-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note ENFDNFIC
Subject Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.
Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.
Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.
Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
PSYCHOLOGY / Hypnotism.
ISBN 9780385536035 hardback $26.95
0385536038 hardback
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