04595nam 2201153Ia 450 991079197880332120230126204141.01-283-27784-097866132778480-520-94873-410.1525/9780520948730(CKB)2560000000072780(EBL)685414(OCoLC)721194423(SSID)ssj0000526434(PQKBManifestationID)11329889(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526434(PQKBWorkID)10537546(PQKB)10065515(MiAaPQ)EBC685414(DE-B1597)519249(OCoLC)727735510(DE-B1597)9780520948730(Au-PeEL)EBL685414(CaPaEBR)ebr10466784(CaONFJC)MIL327784(EXLCZ)99256000000007278020100718d2011 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrViolette Nozière[electronic resource] a story of murder in 1930s Paris /Sarah MazaBerkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26070-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexOn 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 book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930's Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.Women murderersFranceParisBiographyMurderFranceParisCase studiesWomenFranceParisSocial conditions20th centuryParis (France)Social conditions20th century1930s.class.crime.criminology.detective.europe.fascism.female murderers.feminism.france.gender and sexuality.gender studies.history.imprisonment.insanity defense.insanity.interwar paris.law and society.madness.matricide.media studies.mental illness.murder.mystery.nonfiction.paris.parricide.patricide.poison.politics.poverty.prison.respectability.scandal.sensation.social class.social history.transgression.trials.true crime.violence.working class.Women murderersMurderWomenSocial conditions364.152/3092Maza Sarah C.1953-152196MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791978803321Violette Nozière3723176UNINA