The Black Baron: The Strange Life of Gilles de Rais

1930. Gilles De Rais, a marshal of France and a lord of the Breton marches. A noted soldier, he was at Orleans with Joan of Arc. He was a liberal patron of music, literature, and the arts. After his retirement, rumors spread of satanic and vicious doings in his castle. He was tried in an ecclesiastical court, and he confessed to kidnaping more than 100 children, mostly boys, and to murdering them after maltreating them. He was handed over by the Church to the civil authorities and was executed. There is no reason to doubt his confession. He has been supposed, probably wrongly, to be the original of Bluebeard. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

Author: Tennille Dix
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 6.00h x 9.02w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781163209820

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