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...hero of Là-Bas is a novelist named Durtal, who is doing research into the monstrous life of Gilles de Rais, often mistaken for the original Bluebeard.*A dedicated researcher, Durtal himself dabbles in the same black arts that Gilles de Rais practiced- for De Rais, found guilty of murder and executed in 1440, seems to have attracted disciples in 19th century Paris. The core of their infamy is the bizarre and blasphemous rite known as the Black Mass, in which every imaginable obscenity is committed and the Eucharist itself is invoked to bring the celebrants closer...
...Bluebeard & Bluenose. Ever since it first appeared serially in Echo de Paris, the book has enjoyed a kind of scandalous celebrity among men of letters. Zola attacked Huysmans; Maupassant, Verlaine and others defended him. In 1924, the present publishers report, Là-Bas was is sued in the U.S. but ran afoul of John S. Sumner, industrious secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Publisher Albert Boni agreed to withdraw the book and destroy the plates. Now, a generation later, readers may well be of two minds as to who had the right of the matter - the celebrated...
...here," the mayor ordered the workmen, and in a few minutes they unearthed something that gleamed whiter than stone. It was a fragment of human bone. In "Bluebeard's castle" they had found what they were looking...
Grandfather Was Naughty. Bluebeard, the wife killer that Hollywood and the children know, is only a legend; but the real Bluebeard of Brittany-one Baron Gilles de Rais-lived all too real a life five centuries ago in the castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and he came under the wing of his grandfather, Jean de Craon, a notorious libertine and murderer who felt nothing was too bad to teach the boy and nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter...
Inside the castle where workmen unearthed something that gleamed whiter than stone, further digging uncovered a small heap of bones-the remains of 48 child victims of Brittany's Bluebeard...