Gilles de Rais was innocent

Did you really translate the trial record yourself? And why do I keep reading that your book was responsible for the 1992 retrial? This ...

Well, if Gilles de Rais didn't kill the children, who did? Nobody did. There is no evidence to indicate that more children than migh...

Guillaume le Barbier, eighteen years old and therefore an unlikely victim, is one of a mere dozen vanished boys who is given a full name. T...

The penultimate alleged murder, that of an anonymous boy in Vannes, should have been vivid in the minds of all concerned, since it hap...

Of all the likely stories presented as evidence, this may be the most startling. There is a strong implication in Jean Jenvret’s testimony ...

Page from a French bande dessinée,  title unknown. [Click on the picture to enlarge] A few details of the so-called confessions, lo...

Bluebeard: Brave Warrior, Brutal Psychopath  by Valerie Ogden: a review It is a red-letter day when a new English language biography o...

According to Prouteau in Gilles de Rais ou la gueule du loup , Gilles was an alcoholic who drank five litres of hippocras per day. This wa...

Anybody who has read about Gilles de Rais in a biography or on a website and later gone on to read the trial records will have wondered ...

Considering that their forced confessions put the rope round both Gilles de Rais' neck and their own, Henri Griart and Etienne Corilla...

On September 13th, 1440, Jean de Malestroit wrote this - "...we listened repeatedly to the shocking complaints made by as many good a...