Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (47 page)

  
1
  
“My trial”:
The New York Herald
, June 30, 1890.

  
2
  
“Thank God”:
Ibid.

  
3
  
“is utterly incapable”:
Ibid.

  
4
  
“He presents a very pitiful”:
Ibid.

  
5
  
“Le voilà!
”:
Le Petit Journal
, July 1, 1890.

  
1
  
“Je suis cuit”:
Le Petit Journal
, July 2, 1890.

  
2
  
“Whatever one says”:
Le Matin
, July 3, 1890.

  
3
  
“Permit us to remark”:
Ibid., July 4, 1890.

  
4
  
“If we had been captured together”:
Ibid.

  
5
  
“It is said that I terrorized her”:
Ibid., July 5, 1890.

  
6
  
“Moi?”
:
Ibid.

  
7
  
“The newspapers say”:
Le Petit Journal
, July 5, 1890.

  
1
  
“She detested him”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 314.

  
2
  
“It was necessary”:
Ibid., 310.

  
3
  
“I am reborn”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 99.

  
4
  
“The heart of a man”:
Ibid.

  
5
  
“Eyraud seemed emotional”:
Ibid.

  
6
  
“Poor animals”:
Le Matin
, July 9, 1890.

  
7
  
“I can’t see this man”:
Jaume, 99.

  
8
  
“Some enormous contradictions exist”:
Le Matin
, July 9, 1890.

  
9
  
“I did not strangle Gouffé”:
Jaume, 99–100.

10
  
“You lie, monsieur!”:
Le Matin
, July 9, 1890.

11
  
“Eyraud strangled him”:
Goron, 345–46.

12
  
“That’s true”:
Le Matin
, July 9, 1889.

13
  
“What nerve he has!”:
Jaume, 100.

14
  
“Oh! What cheek!”:
Goron, 345.

15
  
“Gabrielle seems to have taken”:
Le Matin
, July 9, 1980.

16
  
“How my heart beats”:
Ibid., July 10, 1890.

17
  
“He’s a liar!”:
Ibid., July 9, 1890

18
  
“Do you think”:
Ibid., July 10, 1890.

  
1
  
“It is true to say”:
Le Petit Journal
, July 13, 1890.

  
2
  
“The Reconstruction of the Crime”:
complete version in Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 348.

  
3
  
“useless experience”:
Le Matin
, July 9, 1890.

  
4
  
“Some political men”:
Goron, 347.

  
5
  
she begged her keepers:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 100.

  
6
  
“Since I am suffering”:
Le Matin
, July 15, 1890.

  
7
  
“Nos bons jurés”:
Le Matin
, Nov. 25, 1890.

  
8
  
“Everyone has had enough”:
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 9, 1890.

  
9
  
“make Gabrielle not responsible”:
Jaume, 88.

  
1
  
“The president of the Court”:
Moriarity,
The Paris Law Courts
, 185.

  
2
  
“veritable passion for hypnotism”:
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 12, 1890.

  
3
  
“The public waits”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 16, 1890.

  
4
  
“What a spectacle!”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 106.

  
5
  
“They must laugh abroad”:
Le Matin
, Dec. 17, 1890.

  
6
  
“Few people of real refinement”:
The Royal Gazette
, Dec. 25, 1890.

  
7
  
“What countless vials”:
Moriarty, 181.

  
8
  
“honeyed, persuasive”:
Ibid., 194.

  
9
  
“Les voici!”
:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 17, 1890.

10
  
“Assis!”
:
Le Matin
, Dec. 17, 1890.

  
1
  
“But we’re missing”:
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 17, 1890.

  
2
  
“For sure!”:
Ibid.

  
3
  
“a furtive, hateful”:
Le Matin
, Dec. 17, 1890.

  
4
  
reading of the charges:
Affaire Gouffé, 16.

  
5
  
“To imagine the Assize”:
Harris,
Murders and Madness
, 212.

  
6
  
“The defendant is immediately”:
Ferrari, “The Procedure in the Cour d’Assises of Paris,” 45–46.

  
7
  
“president of the court”:
The Washington Post
, Jan. 4, 1891.

  
8
  
“All this pales”:
Judge Robert’s examination of Eyraud can be found in
Affaire Gouffé
, 18–27.

  
9
  
“He is energetic”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 107.

  
1
  
“Bring back”:
Judge Robert’s examination of Bompard and other details of the proceedings can be found in
Affaire Gouffé
, 28–40, and Locard,
La Malle Sanglante de Millery
, 8.

  
1
  
“I am ready to prove”:
Details of the trial, except where otherwise noted, are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 40–73.

  
2
  
“his peregrinations”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 18, 1890.

  
3
  
“furious at the witness”:
Ibid.

  
4
  
“Oh Michel!”:
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 18, 1890.

  
5
  
“One defendant”:
San Francisco Chronicle
, Dec. 20, 1890.

  
1
  
“The line of flickering lights”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 19, 1890.

  
2
  
“princes of science”:
Ibid.

  
3
  
“Thirty witnesses”:
Ibid., Dec. 18, 1890.

  
4
  
“If someone bothers me”:
Details of the trial are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 77–90.

  
1
  
“She became a woman”:
Details of the trial are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 96–101.

  
1
  
“She was almost immediately”:
Details of the trial, unless otherwise noted, are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 105–10.

  
2
  
“Guards! Clear the room!”:
Le Matin
, Dec. 19, 1890.

  
3
  
“Tumult. Uproar”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 113.

  
1
  
“They do not think”:
Details of the trial, unless otherwise noted, are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 110–25.

  
2
  
“We haven’t finished”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 19, 1890.

  
1
  
“Perfectly”:
Details of the trial, unless otherwise noted, are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 127–45.

  
2
  
“All scientific precautions”:
Liégeois, “Suggestion à 365 Jours D’Intervalle,” 148.

  
3
  
“Hypnotic Mysteries”:
Daily Inter Ocean
, Dec. 19, 1890.

  
4
  
“If Gabrielle Bompard succeeds”:
San Francisco Chronicle
, Dec. 20, 1890.

  
5
  
“The theater, that’s fiction”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 21, 1890.

  
1
  
“I come to conclude”:
Details of the trial, unless otherwise noted, come from
Affaire Gouffé
, 146–71.

  
2
  
“the individual has committed”:
Ferrari, “Procedure in the Cour d’Assises of Paris,” 55.

  
1
  
“I am neither philosopher”:
Details of the trial are from
Affaire Gouffé
, 172–80.

  
1
  
“Assis!”:
Le Matin
, Dec. 21, 1890.

  
2
  
“Do you think”:
Ibid.

  
3
  
Already, his lawyer:
Other posttrial information from
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 22, 1890;
Le Matin
, Dec. 22, 1890; and
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 23, 1890.

  
1
  
“He is not the ferocious criminal”:
Le Matin
, Dec. 31, 1890;
Le Matin
quoted Madame Eyraud’s interview from
Le Gaulois.

  
2
  
“Why did you change”:
Le Matin
, Jan. 9, 1891.

  
3
  
“Strange thing!”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 4, 1891.

  
4
  
“Very well”:
The Washington Post
, Feb. 4, 1891.

  
5
  
“Tell them”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 4, 1891.

  
6
  
“C’est Eyraud qu’il nous faut”:
Darmon,
La Malle à Gouffé
, 238.

  
7
  
“Your body”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 4, 1891.

  
8
  
“Constans has won his case!”:
The Washington Post
, Feb. 4, 1891.

  
9
  
“I told you no”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 4, 1891.

10
  
“Constans is a murderer”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 115.

11
  
“What a bizarre manifestation”:
Ibid.

12
  
“I’d like to see you there”:
Gerould,
Guillotine
, 67.

13
  
“On one or two occasions”:
Story from the
London Globe
, published in
The Washington Post
, May 6, 1883.

  
1
  
“When saying good-bye”:
The account of Charcot’s final days is from Goetz et al.,
Charcot—Constructing Neurology
, 312.

  
2
  
“For me there is a God”:
Ibid., 278.

  
3
  
“the ‘school of the Salpêtrière’ ”:
Freud,
The Collected Papers, Vol. 1
, 14.

  
4
  
“He was not much given”:
Ibid., 10.

  
5
  
“hitherto neglected”:
Ibid., 23.

  
6
  
“He told me that his concept”:
Guillain,
J. M. Charcot 1825–1893
, 176.

  
7
  
“From 1887 onwards”:
Gauld,
A History of Hypnotism
, 336.

  
8
  
“Only the opponents”:
Freud, 23.

  
9
  
“In my tiny brain”:
Bonduelle and Gelfand, “Hysteria Behind the Scenes: Jane Avril at the Salpêtrière,” 37.

  
10
  
“Like all hysterics”:
Hustvedt,
Medical Muses
, 138.

11
  
“They claim all these attacks”:
Bonduelle and Gelfand, 40.

12
  
“I know what I have just done”:
Krämer,
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
, 696.

13
  
“Within me”:
Ibid., 697.

14
  
“Il n’y a pas d’hypnotisme”:
Gauld, 562.

15
  
“One could have discovered”:
Ibid., 354.

16
  
“the scandal of scandals”:
Harriss,
The Tallest Tower
, 155.

17
  
“the souvenir which I”:
Wilkins,
Behind the French C.I.D.
, 105.

18
  
“a respect for”:
Ibid., 106.

19
  
“If in this unfortunate affair”:
Ibid., 107.

20
  
“might perhaps be described”:
Ibid., 7.

21
  
“he was as the French say”:
Ibid., 12.

22
  
“rectitude to avoid”:
Emsley, “From Ex-Con to Expert,” 72.

23
  
“It isn’t personal interest”:
Goron,
Les Mémoires de M. Goron
, 215.

24
  
“peculiar science”:
The Washington Post
, Sept. 19, 1915.

25
  
“but her gaiety”:
La Presse
, Jan. 14, 1891.

26
  
“If only I were sure”:
Ibid., June 2, 1894.

27
  
“she is neither resigned”:
Le Journal des Débats
, Aug. 14, 1897.

28
  
“a model of gentility”:
Le Figaro
, Oct. 30, 1897.

29
  
“had the most exemplary conduct”:
Le Journal des Débats
, Jan. 18, 1901.

30
  
“face, pale and round”:
Le Temps
, June 9, 1903.

31
  
“so he’d be interested”:
Ibid.

32
  
“Oh! A good lunch”:
Ibid.

33
  
“the petite strangler”:
La Presse
, June 11, 1903.

34
  
“the confessed strangler”:
San Francisco Chronicle
, June 29, 1903.

35
  
“You must fall”:
Sydney Morning Herald
, Jan. 15, 1904.

36
  
“very weird spectacle”:
The Mercury
(Hobart, Tasmania), Jan. 20, 1904.

37
  
“Curious about my life”:
La Presse
, Dec. 17, 1903.

38
  
“As Christians”:
Ibid.

39
  
“What the world”:
The New York Times
, Dec. 22, 1890.

40
  
“should this line of defense”:
The Washington Post
, Apr. 3, 1891.

41
  
“is a middle-aged woman”:
Oakland Tribune
, Jan. 7, 1912.

42
  
“in misery”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 10, 1920.

43
  
“An Unnoticed Departure”:
La Presse
, Dec. 11, 1920.