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

CHAPTER V

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GILLES’S TRIAL BEFORE THE ECCLESIASTICAL TRIBUNAL

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