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Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais

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Leonard Wolf is a professor of English at San Francisco State University. He annotated "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", and wrote other books. This 1980 book is about the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais in the XV century, the ending decades of the Middle Ages. Bluebeard was a wealthy and cultured noble who fought with Joan of Arc to unite France under Charles VII. Unlike the Bluebeard of popular fiction who murdered his wives, Gilles de Rais committed vile acts against children, mostly young boys. These monstrous crimes were mostly censored from the history books. This book tries to reconstruct Gilles' life from the transcript of his ecclesiastical and secular trials in old books that are unavailable in English. The `Bibliography' has eight pages.

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Cover of: Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
1980, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
1980, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
Bluebeard, the life and crimes of Gilles de Rais
1980, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 245-252.

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New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/5/0924, B
Library of Congress
DC102.8.R2 W7 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 259 p. :
Number of pages
259

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24722709M
Internet Archive
bluebeardlifecri00wolf
ISBN 10
0517540614
LCCN
79028345
OCLC/WorldCat
5831718

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