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The Village of Cannibals - Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
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The Village of Cannibals - Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
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In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of
Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that
aroused the indignation of the entire country. A young nobleman,
falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely
tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive.
Rumors of cannibalism stirred public fascination, and the details
of the case were dramatically recounted in the popular press. While
the crime was rife with political significance, the official
inquiry focused on its brutality. Justice was swift: the mob's
alleged ringleaders were guillotined at the scene of the crime the
following winter. The Village of Cannibals is a fascinating inquiry
by historian Alain Corbin into the social and political ingredients
of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into executioners in
nineteenth-century France. Corbin's chronicle of the killing is
significant for the new light it sheds on the final eruption of
peasant rage in France to end in murder. No other author has
investigated this harrowing event in such depth or brought to its
study such a wealth of perspectives. Corbin explores incidents of
public violence during and after the French Revolution and
illustrates how earlier episodes in France's history provide
insight into the mob's methods and choice of victim. He describes
in detail the peasants' perception of the political landscape and
the climate of fear that fueled their anxiety and ignited
long-smoldering hatreds. Drawing on the minutes of court
proceedings, accounts of contemporary journalists, and testimony of
eyewitnesses, the author offers a precise chronology of the chain
of events that unfolded on the fairground that summer afternoon.
His detailed investigation into the murder at Hautefaye reveals the
political motivations of the murderers and the gulf between their
actions and the sensibilities of the majority of French citizens,
who no longer tolerated violence as a viable form of political
expression. The book will be welcomed by scholars, students, and
general readers for its compelling insights into the nature of
collective violence.
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