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020    1568589883|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1004671291 
037    |bPerseus Books Group, C/O Hachette Book Group USA 53 
       State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 02109|nSAN 200-2205 
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100 1  Merriman, John M.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Ballad of the anarchist bandits :|bthe crime spree that 
       gripped Belle Époque Paris /|cJohn Merriman. 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bNation Books,|c2017. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    viii, 327 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-314) and 
       index. 
505 0  "The good old days" in Paris -- Victor Kibaltchiche -- 
       Another Paris : "Misery is everywhere" -- Anarchists in 
       conflict -- Rirette Maîtrejean -- A love story -- A bitter
       split -- Jules Bonnot -- The Bonnot Gang strikes -- The 
       Bonnot Gang at bay -- How to unload stolen securities -- 
       The police in action -- The Bonnot Gang's murder spree -- 
       Panic in Paris -- Police dragnet -- Antoine Gauzy's 
       variety store -- Besieged in Choisy-le-Roi -- Spectacle in
       Nogent-sur-Marne -- On trial -- The widow (la veuve) -- 
       The violence of states, the clouds of war -- Aftermath. 
520    "For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of 
       Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A group of 
       bandits went on a rampage throughout the city and its 
       suburbs, robbing banks and wealthy Parisians, killing 
       anyone who got in their way, and always managing to stay 
       one step ahead of the police. But Jules Bonnot and the 
       Bonnot Gang weren't just ordinary criminals; they were 
       anarchists, motivated by the rampant inequality and 
       poverty in Paris. John Merriman tells this story through 
       the eyes of two young, idealistic lovers: Victor 
       Kibaltchiche (later the famed Russian revolutionary and 
       writer Victor Serge) and Rirette Maîtrejean, who 
       chronicled the Bonnot crime spree in the radical newspaper
       L'Anarchie. While wealthy Parisians frequented restaurants
       on the Champs-Élysées, attended performances at the 
       magnificent new opera house, and enjoyed the decadence of 
       the so-called Belle Époque, Victor, Rirette, and their 
       friends occupied a vast sprawl of dank apartments, bleak 
       canals, and smoky factories. Victor and Rirette rejected 
       the violence of Bonnot and his cronies, but to the police 
       it made no difference. Victor was imprisoned for years for
       his anarchist beliefs, Bonnot was hunted down and shot 
       dead, and his fellow bandits were sentenced to death by 
       guillotine or lifelong imprisonment. Fast-paced and 
       gripping, Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits is a tale of 
       idealists and lost causes--and a vivid evocation of Paris 
       in the dizzying years before the horrors of World War I 
       were unleashed."--Jacket flaps. 
600 10 Bonnot, Jules,|d1876-1912. 
600 10 Serge, Victor,|d1890-1947. 
600 10 Maîtrejean, Rirette,|d1887-1968. 
610 20 Bonnot Gang. 
650  0 Gangs|zFrance|zParis|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Brigands and robbers|zFrance|zParis|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Organized crime|zFrance|zParis|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Anarchism|zFrance|zParis|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Murder|zFrance|zParis|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Criminals|zFrance|vBiography. 
650  0 Anarchists|zFrance|vBiography. 
650  0 Robbery|zFrance|zParis|vCase studies. 
650  0 Murder|zFrance|zParis|vCase studies. 
651  0 Paris (France)|xHistory|y20th century. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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