Title : Eat it if you want - Jean Teulé - book
Summary :
After the success of the Montespan, Jean Teulé retraces, with the dark humor and offbeat wit that he has the secret, an extraordinary and little-known historical event...
No one is immune to the abominable. We are all capable of the worst! On Tuesday, August 16, 1870, Alain de Monéys, a young man from Périgord, left his parents' home to go to the fair in Hautefaye, the neighboring village. He was a pleasant, kind, and intelligent young man. He planned to buy a heifer for a poor neighbor and find a roofer to repair the roof of a destitute neighbor's barn. He also wanted to take the opportunity to promote his project to clean up the region's marshes.
He arrives at the entrance to the fair at two o'clock. Two hours later, the maddened crowd will have lynched him, tortured him, burned him alive, and even eaten him. How is such horror possible? How can a peaceful population (certainly anxious about the war against Germany and under the threat of an exceptional drought) be seized in a few minutes by such a barbaric frenzy? On the pretext of a misunderstood sentence and a completely unfounded accusation of espionage, six hundred completely ordinary people will indulge in the worst atrocities for two hours. Few will attempt to intervene. The priest and some of the young man's friends will try to snatch the unfortunate victim from the hands of these furious people, and only Anna, a young girl in love, will risk her life to save him.
Unable to convict 600 people at once, the justice system will only prosecute about 20 ringleaders. Four will be sentenced to death, the others will be sent to forced labor. In the aftermath of this abominable crime, the stunned participants will have only one response: "I don't know what came over me."
With formidable precision, Jean Teulé has reconstructed each stage of this atrocious Stations of the Cross, which constitutes one of the most shameful anecdotes in the history of the 19th century in France.
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EAN : 9782260017721
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