Violette Nozière : a story of murder in 1930s Paris / Sarah Maza.

Author/creator Maza, Sarah C., 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents A neighborhood in Paris -- Interwar girlhoods -- Violette's family romance -- A crime in late summer -- The accusation -- Letters to the judge -- A culture of crime -- A water lily on a heap of coal -- The trial -- Afterlives.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-320) and index.
LCCN 2010028603
ISBN0520260708 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520260702 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV6248.N7 M39 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold