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Levingston, Steven.
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Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.
Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.
Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.
Hypnotism and crime.
Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Levingston, Steven.
Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.
Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.
Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.
Hypnotism and crime.
Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
MARC Display
Little
demon
in the
city
of
light
: a
true
story
of
murder
and
mesmerism
in
Belle
Epoque
Paris
/ Steven Levingston.
by
Levingston, Steven.
Doubleday, c2014.
Call #:
364.1523 L665L
Subjects
Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint, 1840-1889.
Eyraud, Michel, 1843-1891.
Bompard, Gabrielle, 1868-1920.
Hypnotism and crime.
Murder
-- France --
Paris
-- Case studies.
Paris
(France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780385536035 (hc.)
0385536038 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
333 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"
Little
Demon
in the
City
of
Light
is the thrilling—and so wonderfully French—story of a gruesome 1889
murder
of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress and the international manhunt, sensational trial, and an inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power that ensued. In France at the end of the nineteenth century a great debate raged over the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé entered 3, rue Tronson du Coudray, he expected nothing but a delightful assignation with the comely young Gabrielle Bompard. Instead, he was murdered—hanged!—by her and her companion Michel Eyraud. The body was then stuffed in a trunk and dumped on a riverbank near Lyon. As the inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the woman the French tabloids dubbed the "
Little
Demon
" escalated, the most respected minds in France debated whether Gabrielle Bompard was the pawn of her mesmerizing lover or simply a coldly calculating murderess. And, at the burning center of it all: Could hypnosis force people to commit crimes against their will?"--Dust jacket.
Genre:
True
crime.
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