Gilles de Rais was innocent

To commemorate Gilles de Rais Day, here is my attempt to tell the story of Gilles de Rais as a fairy tale. It is deliberately romanticized...

Where did the King come into the plot? Was he jealous of Gilles' showy wealth, too? This is another recent myth, put about by people...

Gilles de Rais was not Bluebeard . There is no dispute about this whatsoever. The idea was first mooted by a few nineteenth century French...

Why would Jean V have gone to such trouble to frame him? Gilles was broke and had already sold the Duke the two border castles he particul...

Feel free to share this. It was made for me by the kind gentleman from  this blog

Do we know for certain that Gilles was homosexual? We know few things for certain about Gilles de Rais. Everything we are told about his...

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