# The Seven Wives of Bluebeard 1920

Author: France, Anatole, 1844-1924; May, J. Lewis (James Lewis), 1873-1961 [Editor]; Miall, Bernard, 1876-1953 [Editor]; Stewart, D. B. [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25411

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Seven+Wives+of+Bluebeard+1920+France&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

THE strangest, the most varied, the most erroneous opinions have been expressed with regard to the famous individual commonly known as Bluebeard. None, perhaps, was less tenable than that which made of this gentleman a personification of the Sun. For this is what a certain school of comparative mythology set itself to do, some forty years ago. It informed the world that the seven wives of Bluebeard were the Dawns, and that his two brothers-in-law were the morning and the evening Twilight, identifying them with the Dioscuri, who delivered Helena when she was rapt away by Theseus. We must remind those readers who may feel tempted to believe this that in 1817 a learned librarian of Agen, Jea...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seven-wives-of-bluebeard-1920-25411/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seven-wives-of-bluebeard-1920-25411/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seven-wives-of-bluebeard-1920-25411/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seven-wives-of-bluebeard-1920-25411/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-seven-wives-of-bluebeard-1920-25411/chapters/1/index.md)