Leader in the French army, companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, convicted serial killer of children

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La psychose de Gilles de Rais : sire de Laval, maréchal de France, 1404-1440 / Frédéric-Henri Bernelle.

Gilles de Rais : the original Bluebeard / by A.L. Vincent & Clare Binns, introduction by M. Hamblin Smith.

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Gilles de Rais

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La psychose de Gilles de Rais : sire de Laval, maréchal de France, 1404-1440 / Frédéric-Henri Bernelle.

Gilles de Rais : the original Bluebeard / by A.L. Vincent & Clare Binns, introduction by M. Hamblin Smith.