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Autore |
Maza Sarah C. <1953-> |
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Titolo |
Violette Nozière [[electronic resource] ] : a story of murder in 1930s Paris / / Sarah Maza |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-27784-0 |
9786613277848 |
0-520-94873-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women murderers - France - Paris |
Murder - France - Paris |
Women - France - Paris - Social conditions - 20th century |
Paris (France) Social conditions 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. A Neighborhood in Paris -- Two. Interwar Girlhoods -- Three. Violette's Family Romance -- Four. A Crime in Late Summer -- Five. The Accusation -- Six. Letters to the Judge -- Seven. A Culture of Crime -- Eight. A Water Lily on a Heap of Coal -- Nine. The Trial -- Ten. Afterlives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable |
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