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Blue-beard: A Contribution to History and Folk-lore Being the history of Gilles de Retz of Brittany, France, who was executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D., and who was the original of Blue-beard in the tales of Mother Goose
Explore the dark and tangled story of Gilles de Retz, a 15th-century Breton nobleman whose life of military valor and courtly splendor descended into accusations of child abduction, sorcery, and murder—events that inspired the Bluebeard legend.
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