The Hysteria Show
An insane asylum is an unlikely setting for a hit show. And, true enough, drawing crowds was never the intention of the show's brilliant creator,...
An insane asylum is an unlike...
Read MoreAn insane asylum is an unlikely setting for a hit show. And, true enough, drawing crowds was never the intention of the show's brilliant creator,...
An insane asylum is an unlike...
Read MoreDisturbing stories were circulating in Paris about a madman randomly assaulting young women in the street. His method of attack was bizarre: he would approach...
Disturbing stories were circu...
Read MoreThe first Bastille Day was in 1789. Back then, the French didn't even know it was Bastille Day, they just decided it was a good...
The first Bastille Day was in...
Read MoreThe Marie Lafarge poisoning case that I wrote about recently remains a mystery to me. When I try to decide for myself whether she was guilty or...
The Marie Lafarge poisoning c...
Read MoreThe story began with a locked room mystery: an impossible murder played out in real life. How was it that Laetitia Toureaux boarded an empty...
The story began with a locked...
Read MoreLaetitia Toureaux wasn't the only foreign national in France to be murdered in unusual circumstances in 1937. In January, four months before Laetitia was stabbed...
Laetitia Toureaux wasn't the ...
Read MoreIn the summer of 1840 Marie Lafarge was the most famous woman in France. She was such a celebrity that everything she did, said and...
In the summer of 1840 Marie L...
Read MoreIn 2013 a ban on French women wearing trousers was finally overturned after 200 years. The repressive law, designed to keep women out of the...
In 2013 a ban on French women...
Read MoreIt was past midnight on Thursday the 13th of May 1937 when Laetitia Toureaux exited the métro station and began making her way home. She...
It was past midnight on Thurs...
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