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The Dominici Affair - Murder and Mystery in Provence (Hardcover)
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The Dominici Affair - Murder and Mystery in Provence (Hardcover)
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In August 1952, the distinguished British scientist Sir Jack
Drummond, alongside his wife, Lady Ann, and their ten-year-old
daughter, Elizabeth, was brutally murdered on a roadside in rural
France. Sir Jack, a well-known nutritionist who modernized the
classification of vitamins and helped devise UK rationing in World
War II, was on holiday with his family in the French Riviera when
they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La
Grand'Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the
following morning. Gaston Dominici, the illiterate,
seventy-five-year-old patriarch of the nearby La Grand'Terre was
accused, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine soon
after. When Dominici was first convicted there was general
agreement that the ignorant, pitiless, and depraved old peasant had
gotten what he deserved. At the time, Dominici stood for everything
backwards and brutish about a peasantry left behind in the wake of
France's post-war transformation and burgeoning prosperity. But
with time perspectives changed. Subsequent enquiries coupled with
widespread doubts and misgivings prompted President de Gaulle to
order his release from prison in 1960, and by the 1980s many in
France came to believe--against all evidence--that Gaston Dominici
was innocent. He had become a romanticized symbol of a simpler,
genuine, and somehow more honest life from a bygone era.
Reconstructing the facts of the case and setting it against broader
social, economic, and historical currents in post-war France, The
Dominici Affair sheds light on one of the most puzzling and
notorious crimes of 20th Century France, illuminating an entire
Rorschach of social dynamics in the country.
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