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[Steven Levingston] À Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder in Belle Époque Paris ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder in Belle Époque Paris DMD said Engaging Read. In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and the Paris Exhibition of 1889, Steven Levingston tells the tale of murder, mesmerism and an explosion of international media coverage.This is the true story of the young mistress of a middle aged married man and th. Thorough Research, Dragged Out Story C'est Moi This book was the first I'd ever heard of this murder mystery and a hypnotism defense. For some reason, maybe the cover picture and the title, I was under the impression that t
| Title | : | Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder in Belle Époque Paris |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307950301 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DMD said Engaging Read. In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and the Paris Exhibition of 1889, Steven Levingston tells the tale of murder, mesmerism and an explosion of international media coverage.This is the true story of the young mistress of a middle aged married man and th. Thorough Research, Dragged Out Story C'est Moi This book was the first I'd ever heard of this murder mystery and a hypnotism defense. For some reason, maybe the cover picture and the title, I was under the impression that there would be more details about the Paris Exposition of 1889 mingled with . A Real Life Murder Mystery Hank Cox I found this book impossible to put down. It is a real life murder mystery set in a fascinating time and place. It is clearly exhaustively researched. The short chapters move the story along quickly. The suspects flee to the United States which gives
. A veteran international journalist who has worked in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Paris, along with assignments in New York, Chicago, and Washington, STEVEN LEVINGSTON is the nonfiction book editor of The Washington Post. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and two children
--Eloise Kinney . Levingston’s smartly chipper prose and fine attention to detail—down to the otter trim on Gabrielle’s hat—add an entertaining and authentic sensibility to this re-creation of a culture, a crime, and the first time an accused murderer had put forward a hypnotism defense. Was the petite démon (little devil) Gabrielle Bompard, a good girl turned good-time girl, in thrall to bamboozling raconteur Michel Eyraud? Certainly, it made a great story then, one that the tabloids worldwide emblazoned in lurid headlines for months, and one that Levingston tells here, filled with clever and determined detectives (quotes from Sûreté chief Marie-François Goron&rsquo
When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, expecting a delightful assignation with the comely Gabrielle Bompard, he was instead murdered by Gabrielle and her lover, Michel Eyraud. An international manhunt chased the infamous couple from Paris to America’s West Coast, culminating in a sensational trial that investigated the power of hypnosis to possess, control, and even kill. As the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the “Little Demon” intensified, the most respected minds in France vehemently debated: Was Gabrielle Bompard the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess capable of killing a man in cold blood?. In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress launched the trial of the century
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