Book description
A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Money, makes his way
to the village fair. He plans to buy a heifer for a needy neighbour
and find a roofer to repair the roof of the barn of a poor
acquaintance. He arrives at two o'clock. Two hours later, the crowd
has gone crazy; they have lynched, tortured, burned and eaten him. How
could such a horror be possible? With frightening precision, Jean
Teule reconstructs each step of one of the most shameful stories in
the history of nineteenth-century France.
Jean Teule lives in Marais with his companion, the French film
actress Miou-Miou. An illustrator, filmmaker and television presenter,
he is also a prize winning author.
