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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The hero of Là-Bas is a novelist named Durtal, who is doing research into the monstrous life of Gilles de Rais, often mistaken for the original Bluebeard.*A dedicated researcher, Durtal himself dabbles in the same black arts that Gilles de Rais practiced- for De Rais, found guilty...
This odd narrative begins with a conversation between the Novelist-Hero Durtal and a learned physician. Des Hermies. The friends go to the tower cell of a saintly but simple character - the bellringer of Saint-Sulpice Church - where they dine and talk about theology. It all sounds very dull, and...
Grandfather Was Naughty. Bluebeard, the wife killer that Hollywood and the children know, is only a legend; but the real Bluebeard of Brittany-one Baron Gilles de Rais-lived all too real a life five centuries ago in the castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and...