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Dark star : the satanic rites of Gilles De Rais / [Georges Bataille ... and others].
Van Pelt Library DC102.8.R2 D37 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rais, Gilles de, 1404-1440.
- Rais, Gilles de.
- Satanism--France--Biography.
- Satanism.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Creation, 2005.
- Summary:
- The spectre of Gilles de Rais, satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. A fallen general, once the champion of Jeanne d'Arc, de Rais' riches and experimentations led him to the very gates of Hell.
- With quotations, essays and fiction, as well as a complete chronology and register of people and places in de Rais' brief but cataclysmic existence, "Dark Star is a richevocation of the satanic allure of the most intriguing figure in the annals of mass murder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1840681152
- OCLC:
- 57638439
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