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Author Maza, Sarah C., 1953-

Title Violette Nozière : a story of murder in 1930s Paris / Sarah Maza.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-321) and index.
Contents A neighborhood in Paris -- Interwar girlhoods -- Violette's family romance -- A crime in late summer -- The accusation -- Letters to the judge -- A culture of crime -- A water lily on a heap of coal -- The trial -- Afterlives.
Summary On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era, discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair.
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Subject Nozière, Violette, 1915-1966.
Nozière, Violette, 1915-1966.
Noziere, Violette, 1915-1966.
Women murderers -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Women murderers.
France -- Paris.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Murder -- France -- Paris -- Case studies.
Murder.
Women -- France -- Paris -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Maza, Sarah C., 1953- Violette Nozière. Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520260702 (DLC) 2010028603 (OCoLC)649418671
ISBN 9780520948730 (electronic book)
0520948734 (electronic book)
1283277840
9781283277846
9780520260702
0520260708