Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Maza, Sarah
Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Maza, Sarah

Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozi?re gave...
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Author: Sarah Maza
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Maza, Sarah

Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

$129.20
Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Maza, Sarah

Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

$129.20
Author: Sarah Maza
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozi?re 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. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.

Author: Sarah Maza
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/31/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780520272729

About the Author
Sarah Maza is Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of many books including award winners Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (UC Press) and The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850.
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