Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 8: Volume 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier: 1634

Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 8: Volume 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier: 1634

Title: Celebrated Crimes, Volume 4: Urbain Grandier: 1634

Overview: From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed. Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances, facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others, the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. The fourth volume comprises three widely dissimilar tales. One of the strangest stories is that of Urbain Grandier, the innocent victim of a cunning and relentless religious plot. His story was dramatized by Dumas, in 1850. A famous German crime is that of Karl-Ludwig Sand, whose murder of Kotzebue, Councillor of the Russian Legation, caused an international upheaval that was not to subside for many years.

Published: 1910

Series: Celebrated Crimes Collection Series, Celebrated #8

List: True Crime Collection

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Translator: George Burnham Ives

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, Middle Ages History, War & Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical Fiction

Episode: Celebrated Crimes - Alexandre Dumas - Book 1 - Book 8: Volume 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier: 1634

Volume: 4 of 8

Part: 2 of 3

Episodes Part: 12

Length Part: 3:22:31

Episodes Volume: 19

Length Volume: 6:51:14

Episodes Book: 133

Length Book: 59:56:00

Narrator: John Van Stan

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Strongly Suggested, Mature Audience Only

Edition: Unabridged Audiobook

Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, Biography, Autobiography, True Crime, Criminology, Middle Ages, History, War, Military, Christianity, Early Modern, Historical, Fiction, Borgias, Cenci, Massacres, Deep South, Mary Stuart, Karl-Ludwig Sand, Urbain Grandier, Nisida, Desrues, La Constantin, Joan of Naples, Iron Mask, Martin Guerre, Ali Pacha, Countess de Saint-Geran, Murat, Marquise de Brinvilliers, Vaninka, Marquise de Ganges, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo

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