I had given him Lucian's obvious virtues, likening him to Gilles de Rais or to any other child-molesting, drunken, abusive, criminal mentality developed over six centuries within the Hope of Hell.
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| A recreation of the Bluebeard story which follows a French Army captain, executed in Brittany in 1440. The list of his crimes include witchcraft, heresy, sacrilege, sorcery, the evocations of demons and the practice of unnatural crime against children, ending with their murder for his delight. (Text courtesy of Amazon.com) |
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| Impression of Gilles de Rais from a Romanian website. |
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| Gilles de Rais: Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, baron de Rais (1404–1440). A Breton knight, a leader in the French army, a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known as a prolific serial killer of children. (Text courtesy of Wikipedia.) |
