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EPISODE 93: The Beast of Gevaudan

History on Fire

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A Tale of a Killer and a Beast

The marquis de lafayette recruited thousands of villagers across the region for one big hunt. Most peasants who followed duhamel in thes hans only carried pitchforks, but some had firearms. It didn't really seem to matter, however, whether their firearms or not, because most of the time they just never run across the beast. And when they did, the guns, or perhaps their owner's aim, didn't seem to help.

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