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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...
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...
"They have called us names rais, grafters, politicians in their literature," he said. "If there is one thing I want to make clear, it is that I am not, nor ever was a politician," he continued. This defense brought applause, muffled somewhat by the cigar smoke.
Others in the cast include: S. J. Gilman, Jr. '44 as Bertrand de Poulanger, Clyde Eagleton '48 as the Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas...
As I sit here preparing to dish out a few choice tidbits about the famous Co. Baker, I am greatly harassed by a certain Nav Comm strategist who is eagerly slugging quarters into the telephone. He sure pays an awful lot to tell someone in Chicago that he loves her...