Gilles de Rais was innocent

The one thing that everyone knows about Gilles de Rais is that, at the most lurid moment of his confession, the Bishop of Nantes veiled th...

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

One of the few things we know for certain about Gilles de Rais is that he spent the winter of 1430 at Louviers, less than sixteen miles fr...

This is the list of "known victims" published in Gilles de Rais The Authentic Bluebeard by Jean Benedetti. There are fewer than f...

In a grisly confirmation of the impossibility of completely destroying a human body by fire, the bones and teeth of two children, aged two ...

Jean Benedetti, author of Gilles de Rais the authentic Bluebeard (1971) died on March 27th of this year (obituary here .) This book was t...

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