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100	1		_aLevingston, Steven.
245	1	0	_aLittle demon in the city of light : _ba true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris / _cSteven Levingston.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_a333 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
600	1	0	_aGouffé, Augustin Toussaint, _d1840-1889.
600	1	0	_aEyraud, Michel, _d1843-1891.
600	1	0	_aBompard, Gabrielle, _d1868-1920.
650		0	_aMurder _zFrance _zParis _vCase studies.
650		0	_aParis (France) _xSocial life and customs _y19th century.
650		7	_aTRUE CRIME / Murder / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / France. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPSYCHOLOGY / Hypnotism. _2bisacsh
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-333).
520			_a"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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