Blue-beard
by Thomas Wilson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wilson, Thomas, 1832-1902
- Title
- Blue-beard: A Contribution to History and Folk-lore Being the history of Gilles de Retz of Brittany, France, who was executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D., and who was the original of Blue-beard in the tales of Mother Goose
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- Bluebeard (Legendary character)
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59955
- Release Date
- July 21, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BLUE-BEARD A CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY AND FOLK-LORE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.BLUEBEARD — CHAPTER I Gilles de Retz
- 6.CHAPTER II Gilles as a Soldier. 1420–1429
- 7.CHAPTER III GILLE’S LIFE AT HOME IN BRITANNY 1430–1439
- 8.CHAPTER IV Gilles’s Crimes
- 9.CHAPTER V Gilles’s Trial before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
- 10.CHAPTER VI The Trial before the Civil Court
- 11.CHAPTER VII The Execution
- 12.APPENDIX A Mother Goose Publications
- 13.APPENDIX B Bluebeard Stories
- 14.APPENDIX C Mystery of the Siege of Orleans
- 15.APPENDIX D Depositions against Gilles
- 16.INDEX
- 17.Transcriber’s Notes
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