TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levingston,Steven
TI  - Little demon in the city of light: a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris 
SN  - 9780385536035 (hbk.)
AV  - HV6535.F8 P364 2014
U1  - 364.152/3092 23
KW  - Gouffé, Augustin Toussaint,
KW  - Eyraud, Michel,
KW  - Bompard, Gabrielle,
KW  - Murder
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Hypnotism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333)
N2  - "The thrilling--and so wonderfully French--story of a gruesome 1889  murder of a lascivious court official by a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress, an international manhunt, a sensational trial, and an inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power.  In France at the  end of the nineteenth century a great debate raged over the question of  whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions. When Alexandre-Toussaint Gouffe entered a Parisian building at 3 rue Tronson Ducoudray for what he thought would be a delightful assignation with the comely young Gabrielle Bompard, only to be murdered--hanged!--by her and her ruthless companion Michel Eyraud, stuffed in a trunk, and dumped on a riverbank near Lyon, that question became the burning center of an inquiry into  the guilt or innocence of a woman the French tabloids dubbed "The Little  Demon.""--
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