FRENCH CRIME IN THE ROMANTIC AGE

Hardback. The author goes back to crimes of an earlier period with the introduction of the jury system and the guillotine in revolutionary times. Twenty chapters include : the Lyons Mail; Antoine Berthet who shot a woman and himself during a church service in 1872; Les Memoires de Vidocq; poisoners Lacenaire and Helen Jegado; Marie Lafarge; Paris Street riots etc. With Bibliog. and Index. 306pp. 8vo. h/back. With tiny label to fpd, o/w Vg+