LEADER 03467nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910465501003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-27784-0 010 $a9786613277848 010 $a0-520-94873-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520948730 035 $a(CKB)2560000000072780 035 $a(EBL)685414 035 $a(OCoLC)721194423 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000526434 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11329889 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526434 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10537546 035 $a(PQKB)10065515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685414 035 $a(DE-B1597)519249 035 $a(OCoLC)727735510 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520948730 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL685414 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466784 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327784 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000072780 100 $a20100718d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aViolette Nozie?re$b[electronic resource] $ea story of murder in 1930s Paris /$fSarah Maza 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26070-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tOne. A Neighborhood in Paris --$tTwo. Interwar Girlhoods --$tThree. Violette's Family Romance --$tFour. A Crime in Late Summer --$tFive. The Accusation --$tSix. Letters to the Judge --$tSeven. A Culture of Crime --$tEight. A Water Lily on a Heap of Coal --$tNine. The Trial --$tTen. Afterlives --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aOn 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. 606 $aWomen murderers$zFrance$zParis$vBiography 606 $aMurder$zFrance$zParis$vCase studies 606 $aWomen$zFrance$zParis$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aParis (France)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen murderers 615 0$aMurder 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 676 $a364.152/3092 700 $aMaza$b Sarah C.$f1953-$0152196 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465501003321 996 $aViolette Nozie?re$92459808 997 $aUNINA