Biography, September 22nd, 2001
L 'affaire Lacenaire. Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini. Paris: Aubier, "collection historique," 2001. 432 pp. P144.
Lacenaire, Pierre-Francois
A young bourgeois having become an ordinary criminal, a frustrated writer, Lacenaire in prison wrote poetry (which sold well), and also singular Memories, in which he claimed his crimes and demanded the scaffold. Then during his trial, he turned orator, and managed to transform himself from murderer into a great ...
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