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Violette Nozière : a story of murder in 1930s Paris /
On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era, discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520948730 0520948734 1283277840 9781283277846 9786613277848 6613277843 |