Violette Nozière a story of murder in 1930s Paris

Maza, Sarah C. 1953- (Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0520260708
ISBN: 9780520260702
ISBN: 0520948734 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780520948730 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.10.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-321) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.