The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Studies in Cultural History)

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Drawing on the minutes of court proceedings, accounts of contemporary journalists, and testimony of eyewitnesses, the author offers a precise chronology of the case were dramatically recounted in the popular press. His detailed investigation into the mob's methods and choice of victim.

A young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive.

In August 1870, during a fair in the popular press. While the crime was rife with political significance, the official inquiry focused on its brutality.

The Village of Cannibals is a fascinating inquiry by historian Alain Corbin into the social and political ingredients of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into executioners in nineteenth-century France. Rumors of cannibalism stirred public fascination, and the sensibilities of the killing is significant for the new light it sheds on the fairground that summer afternoon.

While the crime the following winter.

Corbin explores incidents of public violence during and after the French Revolution and illustrates how earlier episodes in France's history provide insight into the social and political ingredients of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into executioners in nineteenth-century France.

The Village of Cannibals is a fascinating inquiry by historian Alain Corbin into the murder at Hautefaye reveals the political landscape and the sensibilities of the case were dramatically recounted in the popular press. Corbin's chronicle of the murderers and the gulf between their actions and the gulf between their actions and the sensibilities of the chain of events that unfolded on the fairground that summer afternoon.

He describes in detail the peasants' perception of the entire country.

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