Gilles de Rais was innocent

The first thing to stress is that the trial record is not a reliable nor, obviously, an impartial document. Little attempt has been ma...

One day our descendants will find out the motives and stratagems of the sordid plot that leads me to the stake. Gilbert Prouteau

In the early days of the internet, when it had a capital I and the Millennium Bug was a dark cloud on the horizon, it was sometimes called ...

"But," Chantelouve went on, "there is one point which I never have been able to understand. I have never been able to explai...

It is a given that all biographies of Gilles de Rais have been influenced by Paul Lacroix, the Bibliophile Jacob , either directly or i...

Everybody who has heard the name of Gilles de Rais knows the outline of his story, together with a few mordant details. He was one of Joan ...

RIP, M. Tournier. One of the good guys, see a previous blog post  here . http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/books/michel-to...