True Crime
The Complete Celebrated Crimes
2003·472 pages
A collection of true crime stories by Alexandre Dumas, detailing notorious historical crimes with a dramatic, novelistic flair.
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A collection of true crime stories by Alexandre Dumas, detailing notorious historical crimes with a dramatic, novelistic flair.
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In this second volume of his CELEBRATED CRIMES, Dumas chronicles the sanguinary deeds in the south of France carried on in the name of religion. The French conflicts over Reformation drenched the country in blood much the way the related conflicts blooded the English landscape (there between the Royalist "Cavaliers" and the Protestant "Round Heads" -- folks we would call Fundamentalist today). The strife steeped the soil of the fair country round about Avignon in blood for a long period of years...
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Sexual content
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Minor references to sexual motives or relationships in some crime stories. To coercion or assault in some historical accounts.
Violence & gore
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Extreme graphic depictions of violence, murder, and torture in historical crimes.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Major focus on religious conflicts, especially Catholic-Protestant strife.
Magic & witchcraft
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Minor mentions of witchcraft in historical cases like Urbain Grandier.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Moderate political themes around monarchy, power, and historical conflicts.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Frequent depictions of systemic cruelty, persecution, and suffering. To coercion or assault in some historical accounts.
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