Blue-beard
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- A Contribution to History and Folk-lore Being the history of Gilles de Retz of Brittany, France, who was executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D., and who was the original of Blue-beard in the tales of Mother Goose
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1. Front matter2. BLUE-BEARD A CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY AND FOLK-LORE3. ILLUSTRATIONS4. INTRODUCTION5. CHAPTER I Gilles de Retz6. CHAPTER II Gilles as a Soldier. 1420–14297. CHAPTER III GILLE’S LIFE AT HOME IN BRITANNY 1430–14398. CHAPTER IV Gilles’s Crimes9. CHAPTER V Gilles’s Trial before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal10. CHAPTER V Gilles’s Trial before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal (continued 2)11. CHAPTER VI The Trial before the Civil Court12. CHAPTER VII The Execution13. APPENDIX A Mother Goose Publications14. APPENDIX B Bluebeard Stories15. APPENDIX C Mystery of the Siege of Orleans16. APPENDIX D Depositions against Gilles17. INDEX