A Crime Of Passion
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Jacket protected in mylar layer, tape residue on interior of binding.
In the glittering yet treacherous world of nineteenth-century Paris, a single pistol shot would ignite one of the most sensational murder trials France had ever witnessed. A Crime of Passion chronicles the shocking case of the Duc de Praslin, a French peer who in 1847 brutally murdered his wife, the Duchesse Fanny de Praslin, in her own bedroom — a crime that sent shockwaves through the aristocracy and contributed to the political unrest that would ultimately topple the July Monarchy of King Louis-Philippe. Stanley Loomis reconstructs this gripping true-crime narrative with the meticulous precision of a historian and the dramatic flair of a storyteller, drawing on court records, private correspondence, and contemporary accounts to illuminate the dark passions, marital misery, and social hypocrisy concealed behind the façade of French noble life. Rich in period detail and psychological insight, the work stands as a masterful example of narrative history — one that leaves the reader questioning whether justice was ever truly served, and what secrets the aristocracy carried silently to their graves.
Author: Stanley Loomis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: True crime
Edition: First UK ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Jacket protected in mylar layer, tape residue on interior of binding.
In the glittering yet treacherous world of nineteenth-century Paris, a single pistol shot would ignite one of the most sensational murder trials France had ever witnessed. A Crime of Passion chronicles the shocking case of the Duc de Praslin, a French peer who in 1847 brutally murdered his wife, the Duchesse Fanny de Praslin, in her own bedroom — a crime that sent shockwaves through the aristocracy and contributed to the political unrest that would ultimately topple the July Monarchy of King Louis-Philippe. Stanley Loomis reconstructs this gripping true-crime narrative with the meticulous precision of a historian and the dramatic flair of a storyteller, drawing on court records, private correspondence, and contemporary accounts to illuminate the dark passions, marital misery, and social hypocrisy concealed behind the façade of French noble life. Rich in period detail and psychological insight, the work stands as a masterful example of narrative history — one that leaves the reader questioning whether justice was ever truly served, and what secrets the aristocracy carried silently to their graves.