"and moves on from her horrible experience with Bluebeard. Although best known as a folktale, the character of Bluebeard appears to derive from legends related to historical individuals in Brittany. One source is believed to have been the 15th-century Breton and convicted serial killer Gilles de Rais, a nobleman who fought alongside Joan of Arc and became both Marshal of France and her official protector, then, was burned as a murderous witch. However, Gilles de Rais did not kill his wife, nor were any bodies found on his property, and the crimes for which he was convicted involved the sexually-driven,"
"Gilles de Rais Gilles de Rais (), Baron de Rais (), was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children. A member of the House of Montmorency-Laval, Gilles de Rais grew up under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather and increased his fortune by marriage. He earned the favour of the Duke of Brittany and was admitted to the French court. From 1427 to 1435, Gilles served as a"
"basically ""an absolute joke"". Historians continue to believe him guilty of the crimes, mainly differing as to his motivation. Gilles de Rais Gilles de Rais (), Baron de Rais (), was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children. A member of the House of Montmorency-Laval, Gilles de Rais grew up under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather and increased his fortune by marriage. He earned the favour of"
"the Middle Ages (chapter one contains the first critical appreciation of Matthias Grünewald's Tauberbischofsheim altarpiece) and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris (notably Dr. Johannes, modeled after Joseph-Antoine Boullan), Durtal finds out that Satanism is not simply a thing of the past but alive in turn of the century France. He embarks on an investigation of the occult underworld with the help of his lover Madame Chantelouve. The novel culminates with a description of a black mass. In screenplay form, Norman Mailer wrote a novel based on Huysmans'"
"turned into a fictionalized biography called ""Gilles de Rais ou la Gueule du loup"", narrated by the writer Gilbert Prouteau. ""The case for Gilles de Rais's innocence is very strong"", Prouteau said. ""No child's corpse was ever found at his castle at Tiffauges and he appears to have confessed to escape excommunication ... The accusations appear to be false charges made up by powerful rival lords to benefit from the confiscation of his lands."" However, the journalist Gilbert Philippe from the newspaper ""Ouest-France"" said that Prouteau was being ""facetious and provocative"". He also claimed that Prouteau thought the retrial was"
"Gilles Perrault Gilles Perrault (born 9 March 1931, Paris) is a French writer, screenwriter and journalist. He attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris and then studied at the Institut d'études politiques, eventually becoming a lawyer, a profession he worked in for five years. After the success of his essay 'Les parachutistes' (1961), inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and wrote articles about Nehru's India, the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the problems of African Americans in the United States. He then investigated less well-known aspects of World War II. Since 1961, he has lived"
"time king of Morocco, who had until then been reported positively because of his close relations with the Western world. Perrault's book ""Le Garçon aux yeux gris"" (2001) was adapted by André Téchiné for the film ""Les Égarés"". Gilles Perrault Gilles Perrault (born 9 March 1931, Paris) is a French writer, screenwriter and journalist. He attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris and then studied at the Institut d'études politiques, eventually becoming a lawyer, a profession he worked in for five years. After the success of his essay 'Les parachutistes' (1961), inspired by his military service in Algeria, he became a"
"1433. The first murders occurred at Champtocé-sur-Loire; however, no account of these murders survived. Shortly after, Gilles moved to Machecoul where, as the record of his confession states, he killed, or ordered to be killed, a great but uncertain number of children after he sodomized them. Forty naked bodies of children were discovered in Machecoul in 1437. The first documented case of child-snatching and murder concerns a boy of twelve called Jeudon (first name unknown), an apprentice to the furrier Guillaume Hilairet. Gilles de Rais' cousins, Gilles de Sillé and Roger de Briqueville, asked the furrier to lend them the"
"Ussé for ""The Sleeping Beauty"", and the Marquis of the Château d'Oiron as the model for the Marquis de Carabas in ""Puss in Boots"". He ornamented his folktale subject matter with details, asides and subtext drawn from the world of fashion. Following up on these tales, he translated the ""Fabulae Centum"" (100 Fables) of the Latin poet Gabriele Faerno into French verse in 1699. Charles Perrault Charles Perrault (; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his"
"in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche, upon which he wrote the book ""Les gens d'ici"" (""""People from here"""") ""Le Secret du jour J"" (1964) (""Secrets of D-Day"", 1974) won a prize from the Comité d'action de la Résistance and was an international bestseller. ""L'Orchestre rouge"" (1967) was even more successful. In 1969 Perrault published a spy novel, ""Le dossier 51"". In 1978, Gilles Perrault published ""Le Pull-over rouge"", a novel in which he criticized the method of investigation done by the French police around the 1974 death of an 8-year-old girl. Christian Ranucci, a French citizen, was executed by guillotine for the murder"
"divided the land among his own nobles. Writers such as secret-societies specialist , in his book ""Plaidoyer pour Gilles de Rais"", contend he was a victim of the Inquisition. In the early 20th century, anthropologist Margaret Murray and occultist Aleister Crowley are among those who questioned the involvement of the ecclesiastic and secular authorities in the case. Crowley described de Rais as ""in almost every respect... the male equivalent of Joan of Arc"", whose main crime was ""the pursuit of knowledge"". Murray, who propagated the witch-cult hypothesis, speculated in her book ""The Witch-Cult in Western Europe"" that Gilles de Rais"
"of Guise (1588) during the French wars of religion, both killed, the latter by the king (1588, act 4, scene 4), the former by Jacques Clément, disguised as a priest (1589, act 5, scene 7, final scene). French history in the English-speaking theatre The history of France has been the basis of plays in the English-speaking theatre since the English Renaissance theatre. Christopher Marlowe wrote ""The Massacre at Paris"" (1593), based on events during the reign of Charles IX of France, king from 1560 to 1574 and of Henry III of France, king from 1574 to 1589. In the first"
"have his own nephew killed, so Liu Pengli was made a commoner and banished. In the 15th century, one of the wealthiest men in Europe and a former companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais, sexually assaulted and killed peasant children, mainly boys, whom he had abducted from the surrounding villages and had taken to his castle. It is estimated that his victims numbered between 140 and 800. The Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth Báthory, born into one of the wealthiest families in Transylvania, allegedly tortured and killed as many as 650 girls and young women before her arrest in 1610."
"of a Beer Drinker"" (1868), ""Tales of King Cambrinus"" (1874), and ""Small Town Stories: Tales and Novellas"" (1875). After Deulin's death in 1877, his publisher distributed the author's final contribution to folkloristics: ""Mother Goose Tales before Perrault"" (1878). (Charles Perrault (1628–1703) is the author of ""Tales of Mother Goose"" (1697) and the founder of the fairy tale genre.) Charles Deulin Charles Deulin (1827–77) was a French writer, theatre critic, and folklorist who is most known for his contemporary adaptations of European folk tales. Among his many stories are ""Cambrinus, King of Beer"", ""The Twelve Dancing Princesses"", ""The Enchanted Canary"", and"
"being suspected and dies (1543). John Crowne wrote ""The History of Charles the Eighth of France, or The Invasion of Naples by the French"" (1672), based on events during the reign of Charles VIII of France, king from 1483 to 1498. John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee wrote ""The Duke of Guise"" (1683), based on events during the reign of Henry III of France. Edmund John Eyre wrote ""The Maid of Normandy; or, the Death of the Queen of France"" (1794) concerning Charlotte Corday's murder of Jean-Paul Marat (1793) during the Reign of Terror. Tom Taylor wrote ""Jeanne d'Arc"" (1871), based"
"boy to take a message to Machecoul, and, when Jeudon did not return, the two noblemen told the inquiring furrier that they were ignorant of the boy's whereabouts and suggested he had been carried off by thieves at Tiffauges to be made into a page. In Gilles de Rais' trial, the events were testified to by Hillairet and his wife, the boy's father Jean Jeudon, and five others from Machecoul. In his 1971 biography of Gilles de Rais, Jean Benedetti tells how the children who fell into Rais's hands were put to death: Gilles' bodyservant Étienne Corrillaut, known as Poitou,"
"Louis XVI by English author Jean Plaidy. Louise Julie is one of the central characters in Sally Christie's ""The Sisters of Versailles"" (Simon&Schuster 2015), a novel about Louis XV and the notorious Mailly-Nesle sisters. Louise Julie de Mailly Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, comtesse de Mailly (1710–1751) was the eldest of the five famous ""de Nesle"" sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1732 until 1742. Louise Julie was born the eldest daughter of Louis de Mailly, marquis de Nesle et de Mailly, Prince d'Orange (1689 - 1767), and"
"de France wrote one of the twelve lais as a werewolf story entitled ""Bisclavret"". The Countess Yolande commissioned a werewolf story entitled ""Guillaume de Palerme"". Anonymous writers penned two werewolf stories, ""Biclarel"" and ""Melion"". Much of horror fiction derived itself from the cruelest faces in world history, particularly those who lived in the fifteenth-century. ""Dracula"" can be traced to the Prince of Wallachia Vlad III whose alleged war crimes were published in German pamphlets in the late Fifteenth Century. The 1499 pamphlet published by Markus Ayrer is most notable for its woodcut imagery. The alleged crimes of the Giles de"
"""""Gilles"" (1939) is, without any doubt, one of the greatest novels of the century—and one of those books in which the disarming sincerity of a man rises to the grandeur usually reserved to literary transpositions."" Gilles (novel) Gilles is a 1939 novel by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It follows the life of Gilles Gambier, a Frenchman who is disgusted with the bourgeois world, during World War I and the interwar period. After returning from the war, Gilles marries a Jewish woman for her wealth, becomes involved with the surrealist movement, develops his own fusion of Christianity and"
"Paulinus of Nola). Just like Jean Chapelain's ""La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée"", an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. Charles Perrault died in Paris in 1703 at the age of 75. On 12 January 2016 Google honoured him with a doodle by artist Sophie Diao depicting characters from the Tales of Mother Goose (Histoires ou contes du temps passé). In 1695, when he was 67, Perrault lost his position as secretary and decided to dedicate himself to his children. In 1697 he published ""Tales and Stories of the Past with"
"Darmancour was assumed to have been responsible for the authorship of ""Histoires"" with the evidence cited being the book's dedication to Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, the youngest niece of Louis XIV, which was signed ""P. Darmancour"". Perrault senior, however, was known for some time to have been interested in ""contes de veille"" or ""contes de ma mère l'oye"", and in 1693 published a versification of ""Les Souhaits Ridicules"" and, in 1694, a tale with a Cinderella theme called ""Peau d'Ane"". Further, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript of five of the tales (including ""Le Maistre Chat ou le Chat Botté"") existed two"
"""The Sisters of Versailles"" (Simon&Schuster 2015), a novel about Louis XV and the notorious Mailly-Nesle sisters. Marie Anne de Mailly Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous ""de Nesle"" sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1742 until 1744. Marie Anne was born the youngest daughter of Louis de Mailly, Marquis de Nesle et de Mailly, Prince d'Orange (1689 - 1767), and Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin (1691 - 1729). Her parents had"
"Histoires ou contes du temps passé Histoires ou contes du temps passé or Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals or Mother Goose Tales) is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris in 1697. The work became popular because it was written at a time when fairy tales were fashionable amongst aristocrats in Parisian literary salons. Perrault wrote the work when he retired from court as secretary to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister to Louis XIV of France. Colbert's death may have forced Perrault's retirement, at which point"
"""The Canterbury Tales"", late 1300s). She is also cited in Christine de Pizan's ""The Book of the City of Ladies."" ""Patient Griselda"" is a tale by Charles Perrault (, 1691). John Phillip's play ""The Commodye of Pacient and Meeke Grissill"" (also known as ""The Plaie of Grissill"") dates from 1565. Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker and William Haughton collaborated on another dramatic version, ""Patient Grissel"", first performed in 1599. There are operas named ""Griselda"" by Antonio Maria Bononcini (""Griselda"", 1718), Alessandro Scarlatti (""La Griselda"", 1721), Giovanni Bononcini (""Griselda"", 1722), and Antonio Vivaldi (""Griselda"", 1735). Also Jules Massenets Grisélidis (1901) was inspired"
"Pike's claims, in Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt ""Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai"" (Paris, 1796, first edition). A series of mid-20th-century novels, ""Les Rois maudits"" (""The Accursed Kings"") by Maurice Druon, which were first published in 1955, expanded on the story of the curse of Jacques de Molay and the French monarchy in the fourteenth century: A popular version of the legend attributes to the curse the death of Louis XVI, saying he belonged to the thirteenth generation after Philip IV. The thirteenth generation is in fact that of Louis XIV's children. A frequent recurring legend relates how when Louis"
"brought by Sir Jean de Carrouges against squire Jacques Le Gris, whom he accused of raping his wife Marguerite when Carrouges was in Paris conducting business. After lengthy hearings at the Parlement de Paris, with Amid LeGris claiming that he had not committed the crime and Marguerite being with child, it was decided that guilt could not be decided through a standard jury trial, and a judicial duel was ordered. The duel put four lives in the hands of fate. Those four lives being Jacques LeGris, the accused, Jean de Carrouges, the accuser, Marguerite, the alleged victim and the unborn"
"of France (1494–1547). Sarah Pogson Smith wrote another play on Charlotte Corday's murder of Jean-Paul Marat (1793) during the Reign of Terror, entitled ""The Female Enthusiast"" (1807). Dion Boucicault wrote ""Louis XI"" (1855), an adaptation of a French play of the same title (1832) by Casimir Delavigne, based on events during the reign of Louis XI of France (1461–1483). Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote ""Richelieu"" (1839) based on the cardinal of the same name who dominated political events during the reign of Louis XIII of France (1601–1643). Harry Forrest and Paolo Giacometti wrote ""Marie Antoinette""(1890), based on the life of Marie Antoinette."
"seventeenth century by Charles Perrault (1628–1703), a retired civil servant and member of the ""Académie française"". The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called ""Histoires ou contes du temps passé"". The book was an instant success and remains popular. Perrault's ""Histoires"" has had considerable impact on world culture. The original Italian title of the first edition was ""Costantino Fortunato"", but was later known as ""Il gatto con gli stivali"" (lit. ""The cat with the boots""); the French title was ""Histoires ou"
"Gilles (novel) Gilles is a 1939 novel by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It follows the life of Gilles Gambier, a Frenchman who is disgusted with the bourgeois world, during World War I and the interwar period. After returning from the war, Gilles marries a Jewish woman for her wealth, becomes involved with the surrealist movement, develops his own fusion of Christianity and fascism, and joins the Nationalist faction to fight in the Spanish Civil War. The novel is partially autobiographical. Drieu La Rochelle himself considered it to be his greatest book. The French critic Gaëtan Picon wrote:"
"of Martin Scorsese, who is reportedly planning to make a feature film based on the book. Jacques Le Gris Sir Jacques Le Gris (c. 1330s – 29 December 1386) was a squire and knight in fourteenth century France who gained fame and infamy when he engaged in the last judicial duel permitted by the Parlement of Paris after he was accused of rape by the wife of his neighbour and rival Sir Jean de Carrouges. Carrouges brought legal proceedings against Le Gris before King Charles VI who after hearing the evidence, authorised a trial by combat to determine the question."
"the death of Louis XVI. Set in Paris during the Reign of Terror, the novel follows the adventures of a brave young man named Maurice Lindey who unwittingly implicates himself in a Royalist plot to rescue Marie Antoinette from prison. Maurice is devoted to the Republican cause, but his infatuation with a beautiful young woman leads him into the service of the mysterious Knight of Maison-Rouge, the mastermind behind the plot. Alexandre Dumas based events in the novel on ""the affair of the carnation"", an attempt by the Marquis Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville to communicate with Marie Antoinette by hiding"
"de Venise en l'année M. DC. XVIII"". It relates a Spanish conjuration against Venice. The historical work is not serious by modern criteria, but it was regarded by people of the end of the 17th and the 18th centuries as a good example of classical prosis. In ""Le Siècle de Louis XIV"", Voltaire calls Saint-Réal the ""French Sallust"" because of this work. The authorship of the duchess's ""Mémoires"" has been ascribed to Saint-Real, but no proof exists. He also wrote a ""Vie de Jésus Christ"" in 1678, a summary of the gospels. He took part in the literary arguments of"
"Louis Pergaud Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as ""Animal Stories"" due to his featuring animals of the Franche-Comté in lead roles. His most notable work was the novel ""La Guerre des boutons"" (1912) (English: ""The War of the Buttons""). It has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high-school curriculum. A schoolteacher by profession, Pergaud came into conflict with Roman Catholic authorities over the implementation of the Third French Republic's separation of Church and State enacted in 1905. In 1907"