Gilles de Rais was innocent

There is no one book about Gilles de Rais, either in English or French, that gives all the known facts free of myth and with no agenda. All...

Quentin Crisp's take on Gilles de Rais was about as un-revisionist as it is possible to get. It does, however, illustrate beautifully ...

ANCIEN CACHET / SEAU/ EN BRONZE ARGENTE   FIGURANT JEANNE D'ARC ET UN COMPAGNON D'ARME  très probablement Gil...

(Taken from Bluebeard by Thomas Wilson, 1899. Click to enlarge.) Few modern biographers have read the trial records in their origina...

Marshall of France. The prancing horses And banners licking the air. I tell you now, Standing in pride who have no cuirass, That was not...

Light a candle,  drain a glass,  mark the moment. (Original artwork by Paul Gillon)

The leather binding is curious, soft and pale, of no known provenance. Its silver clasps have tarnished into blackness, grim as coffin ...