Eat him if you like : a novel /
Teulé, Jean.
Eat him if you like : a novel / by Jean Teulé ; translated from the French by Emily Phillips. - London : Gallic, 2011. - 112 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Money, makes his way to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor acquaintance. He arrives at two o'clock. Two hours later, the crowd has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How could such a horror be possible? With frightening precision, Jean Teule reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth century France.
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Monéys, Alain de, -1870 --Fiction.
Lynching--France--Hautefaye--Fiction.
Historical novel.
Eat him if you like : a novel / by Jean Teulé ; translated from the French by Emily Phillips. - London : Gallic, 2011. - 112 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Money, makes his way to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor acquaintance. He arrives at two o'clock. Two hours later, the crowd has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How could such a horror be possible? With frightening precision, Jean Teule reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth century France.
1906040397 (pbk.) 9781906040390 (pbk.)
GBB1C2118 bnb
015952484 Uk
Monéys, Alain de, -1870 --Fiction.
Lynching--France--Hautefaye--Fiction.
Historical novel.