Description: Alias Bluebeard The Life and Death of Gilles de Raiz by Emile Gabory 1930 1st Edition Good condition -- see all photos and video. This is not one of the many reprints issued later. This is the actual 1st Edition from 1930. This has been deemed a culturally and historically important book. The photos you see here are photos of the actual book that you will receive. Many book sellers online post using stock photos that often don’t resemble the book you actually receive. It is well known that france emerged victorious from the Hundred years’ War, due in large part to Joan of arc who joined the fray during the siege of orléans in 1429. Ten days after her arrival on the scene, the English retreated and within two months, under her guidance, the dauphin jour- neyed to Reims for his coronation as charles Vii (r.1422-1461). a quarter century later, the king she had helped put on the throne would expel the english from normandy and Gascony, leaving england with only the port city of Calais of its once vast continental holdings and effectively ending the Hundred years War. What is less well-known is that charles had assigned a seasoned warrior to accompany Joan when he gave her command of his troops. Her “shadow” at orléans and devoted supporter until her capture and eventual execution was a member of the noted laval family of Brittany—Baron Gilles de Rais (1404-1441). But while de Rais is best remembered for his association with the Maid of orleans, the rest of his life was fraught with “shadowy” episodes of a very different nature, episodes that ended in the complete reversal of his fortunes. On october 26, 1440, Gilles de Rais, hero of Orléans, comrade of Joan of Arc, once one of the wealthiest and most powerful Breton nobles, was hanged by the neck at nantes for a plethora of crimes, both civil and ecclesiastical, that included heresy, sodomy, kidnapping, and murder. only a last minute reprieve from the chief judge of the civil court set aside the part of his sentence that called for his body to be burnt to ashes imme- diately following the hanging; the reprieve provided that it merely to be “singed” and afterwards afforded burial in a sanctuary of his choosing.
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