The Dominici Affair by Martin Kitchen

Author:Martin Kitchen [Kitchen, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS013000 History / Europe / France, TRU002000 True Crime / Murder / General
ISBN: 978-1-61234-988-6
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2017-07-28T04:00:00+00:00

In Jean Giono’s novel The Hussar on the Roof (1955), set in Basses-Alpes, Pauline says, “We have fallen among monsters!” Angelo replies, “No, we have fallen among something worse than that—decent people who have ceased to fear the gendarmes.” Here was another Provence, far removed from the quaint tourists’ idyll: dark, violent, passionate, and brutal, with charmingly stereotypical characters transformed into vicious psychopaths, pathological liars, and mean-spirited bumpkins. The horrors that lay behind the picturesque facade titillated Parisian newspaper readers and reaffirmed their vision of Provence as a primitive backwater that hardly could be considered part of civilized France.

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