The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence by Kitchen, Martin
The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence by Kitchen, Martin

The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence

The spectacular murders of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths...
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Author: Martin Kitchen
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The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence by Kitchen, Martin

The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence

$70.39
The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence by Kitchen, Martin

The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence

$70.39
Author: Martin Kitchen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The spectacular murders of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 prompted one of the most notorious criminal investigations in postwar Europe. It is still a matter of passionate debate in France.

Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old proprietor of La Grand' Terre, Gaston Dominici, was brought to trial, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine.

When Dominici was convicted, there was general agreement that the ignorant, pitiless, and depraved old peasant had gotten what he deserved. At the time, he stood for everything backward and brutish about a peasantry left behind in the wake of France's postwar transformation and burgeoning prosperity. But with time perspectives changed. Subsequent inquiries coupled with widespread doubts and misgivings prompted President de Gaulle to order his release from prison in 1960, and by the 1980s many in France came to believe--against all evidence--that Gaston Dominici was innocent. He had become a romanticized symbol of a simpler, genuine, and somehow more honest life from a bygone era.

Reconstructing the facts of the Drummond murders, The Dominici Affair redefines one of France's most puzzling crimes and illustrates the profound changes in French society that took place following the Second World War.

Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.07w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9781612349459

About the Author
Martin Kitchen is a historian and the author of numerous books on European history. His most recent books include Speer: Hitler's Architect and Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943.

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