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Author:

Brunelle, Gayle K., 1959-

Title:

Murder in the métro : Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France / Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvii, 266 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Murder--Paris--Paris--Case studies.
Murder--Investigation--Paris--Paris--Case studies.
Toureaux, Laetitia,--1907-1937.
Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire.
Right-wing extremists--France--History--20th century.
France--History--1914-1940.
France--Politics and government--1914-1940.

Other Authors:

Finley-Croswhite, S. Annette.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Murder in the métro -- Le crime du métro : a perfect crime -- Police and press on the trail of an assassin -- Gentle lamb or wicked sheep? : embodying Laetitia Toureaux -- Provocations and assassinations in 1937 -- Enter the Cagoule : terrorists of the extreme right -- Planning the apocalypse : arms trafficking in 1930s France -- Exposure and dispersion of the Cagoule, November 1937-1948 -- A scenario for a murder -- Conclusion: Who's afraid of Laetitia Toureaux? -- Appendix: The Cagoule in historiography.

ISBN:

0807136166 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807136164 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)460061361

LCCN:

2010000716

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)