THE MURDER OF MONSIEUR FUALDES

Hardback. Tr. by Doris Ashley. Intro' by M. Marcel Prevost. Joseph Bernardin Fualdes, a French judge and public prosecutor of the criminal court of the Aveyron, was murdered in Rodez on March 19, 1817. Coming from a family of lawyers, he had just completed his studies at the outbreak of the French Revolution. A Jacobin moderate, one of his first cases was to defend General Custine whom he managed to prove innocent, but not avoid execution. He also participated in the defence of Charlotte Corday. On March 19, 1817, he was brutally murdered in mysterious circumstances and his body was found floating in the Aveyron. This assassination was the work of the Knights of the Faith in what was presumed to be an act of political revenge. The investigation and trial that followed resulted in the famous Fualdes case, which had a huge impact across France and the rest of Europe because of the sordid circumstances of the murder, relating to the political conditions at the commencement of the Restoration, and the early days of the development of a national press. 284pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned and foxed edges and eps, with a little wear to head/tail of sp. o/w Vg+