The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870

by Alain Corbin

Book Overview

In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignation of the entire country. A young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive. Rumors of cannibalism stirred public fascination, and the details of the case were dramatically recounted in the popular press...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674939018
• ISBN13: 9780674939011
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"