Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (45 page)

  
1
  
“strong, rhythmic step”:
Starr,
The Killer of Little Shepherds
, 17.

  
2
  
“One must know”:
Thorwald,
The Century of the Detective
, 128.

  
3
  
“a mixture of every repulsive odor”:
Starr, 20.

  
4
  
“I had such eagerness”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 227.

  
5
  
“A bungled autopsy”:
Thorwald, 128.

  
6
  
“Gentlemen, I herewith”:
Ibid., 131.

  
1
  
“Light is shed”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 14, 1889.

  
2
  
“We were given”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 16, 1889.

  
3
  
“the very skilled”:
Le Figaro
, Nov. 11, 1889.

  
4
  
“Yes, there cannot be”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 18, 1889.

  
5
  
“I assigned some workers”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 232.

  
6
  
“The police search”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 18, 1889.

  
7
  
“a petite, attractive brunette”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 12, 1889.

  
8
  
“a ravishing brunette”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 15, 1889.

  
9
  
“Eyraud presented himself”:
Ibid.

10
  
“She was adored there”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 13, 1889.

11
  
“How could Eyraud”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 33.

12
  
“He was so good”:
Le Figaro
, Nov. 13, 1889.

13
  
“The investigation advances”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 23, 1889.

14
  
“Suffice it to say”:
Freud,
The Letters of Sigmund Freud
, 187.

15
  
“a little cocaine”:
Ibid., 192.

16
  
“All day long a multitude”:
Schwartz,
Spectacular Realities
, 64.

17
  
“It is nothing but”:
Ibid., 59.

18
  
“I don’t think”:
Freud, 187–88.

19
  
“Cré Dieu!”:
Pessis and Crépineau,
The Moulin Rouge
, 11.

20
  
“I have an elastic anus”:
Nohain and Caradec,
Le Pétomane
, 8–10.

21
  
“supersalacious entertainment”:
Knapp and Chipman,
That Was Yvette
, 70.

22
  
“the overcrowded, overheated”:
Ibid., 71.

23
  
“It was necessary”:
Goron, 232.

24
  
“Many women were very pale”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 24, 1889.

25
  
“This trunk transported”:
Goron, 233–34.

26
  
“There was last night”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 24, 1889.

27
  
“a veritable traffic jam”:
Le Gil Blas
, Nov. 24, 1889.

28
  
“Amid the innumerable curious”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 24, 1889.

29
  
“It took an interrogation”:
Goron, 234–36.

30
  
“Illuminated by a reddish light”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 28, 1889.

  
1
  
“They are people given to”:
Freud,
The Letters of Sigmund Freud
, 188.

  
2
  
“as common mortals”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 28, 1889.

  
3
  
“You look unhappy”:
Le Petit Journal
, Nov. 27, 1889.

  
4
  
“That he has abandoned us”:
Le Figaro
, Nov. 28, 1889.

  
5
  
“The magistrates”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 39.

  
6
  
“I am nearly certain”:
Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 134.

  
7
  
“He is capable of anything”:
Ibid., 137.

  
8
  
“I can still see it”:
Ibid., 135.

  
9
  
“The reporting rises”:
Jaume, 39.

10
  
“That’s the one”:
Le Figaro
, Dec. 7, 1889.

11
  
“Oui, monsieur”:
Ibid., Dec. 8, 1889.

12
  
“This is not a big thing”:
Jaume, 42.

  
1
  
“Chenest is going”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 43.

  
2
  
“I was very sick”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 240.

  
3
  
“Brr!”:
Jaume, 44.

  
4
  
“burlesque incident”:
Goron, 240.

  
5
  
“May God be of aid”:
Ibid., 241.

  
6
  
“Do you know where”:
Jaume, 47–48.

  
7
  
“Oh, we’ll have plenty”:
Goron, 243,

  
8
  
“Come. All is ready”:
Le Petit Journal
, Dec. 24, 1889.

  
9
  
“From then on”:
Goron, 243.

10
  
“dreadful expression”:
Jaume, 48.

11
  
“I’m living the most”:
Ibid., 45.

  
1
  
“an intelligent, honest”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 68.

  
2
  
“I am not aware”:
Lacassagne,
L’Affaire Gouffé
, 75.

  
3
  
“My dear Berthe”:
Letter from Eyraud, Dec. 29, 1889, Archives de la Seine.

  
4
  
“You do not have”:
Letter from Eyraud, Dec. 31, 1889, Archives de la Seine.

  
5
  
“Murderer!”:
La Presse
, Jan. 27, 1890.

  
1
  
“Without doubt I would have lost my sight”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 262.

  
2
  
“family considerations”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Jan. 8, 1890.

  
3
  
“I thought I had”:
Goron, 245.

  
4
  
“To think that I murdered him”:
Ibid., 247.

  
5
  
“Ah! Monsieur, how I suffer”:
Ibid., 246.

  
6
  
“I cried like a baby”:
Ibid., 252.

  
7
  
“I am lost”:
Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 147.

  
8
  
“I have deserted my home”:
Ibid., 150.

  
9
  
“I never saw that trunk again”:
Ibid., 146.

10
  
“She burst into laughter”:
Goron, 252.

11
  
“Did they find”:
Bouchardon, 148.

12
  
“We have not seen each other again”:
Ibid., 149.

13
  
“I wrote more than twenty letters”:
Goron, 256.

14
  
“Ah! Ah! I am dead”:
Ibid., 256–57.

15
  
“Her hair is now cut”:
Bouchardon, 150.

16
  
“The sadness of this creature”:
Goron, 257.

17
  
“I am not guilty”:
Ibid., 253.

18
  
“It was possible that Eyraud”:
Ibid., 246.

19
  
“His Gabrielle was taken”:
Ibid.

  
1
  
“In her mind”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 305.

  
2
  
“Do you have a letter”:
Ibid., 263–64.

  
3
  
“The prefect’s bailiff”:
Ibid., 264.

  
4
  
“But I need to see”:
Ibid., 265.

  
5
  
“He is sick”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 49–50.

  
6
  
“Tell me, Jaume”:
Ibid., 50.

  
7
  
“How can you be sure”:
Ibid.

  
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“who the devil”:
Ibid., 51.

  
1
  
“was a
coup de théâtre”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 24, 1890.

  
2
  
“We find that”:
Lombroso and Ferrero,
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
, 191.

  
3
  
“all the characteristics”:
Ibid., 140.

  
4
  
“Her biggest concern”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 26, 1890.

  
5
  
“No one said a word”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 51.

  
6
  
“Flowers for your madame”:
Ibid.

  
7
  
“Voilà”:
Ibid.

  
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“pretty ladies”:
Ibid., 53.

  
9
  
“La belle Gabrielle”:
Ibid., 54.

10
  
“the least cry”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 26, 1890.

11
  
“I look spiffy”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 275.

12
  
“One thus avoids”:
Le Petit Journal
, Oct. 19, 1890.

13
  
“The emotion was great”:
Ibid., Jan. 24, 1890.

14
  
“It is thus now permitted”:
Le Gil Blas
, Jan. 24, 1890.

15
  
“A man who should be”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 24, 1890.

  
1
  
“We were right yesterday”:
Le Gil Blas
, Jan. 24, 1889.

  
2
  
“A beautiful hat”:
Goron, 273.

  
3
  
“So, little demon”:
The name
petit démon
appears in several places:
Le Gil Blas
mentions
petit démon
in an analysis of the Gouffé case on Jan. 28, 1890; the Jan. 29, 1890,
L’Écho de Paris
uses
petit démon
as the term Gouffé calls Bompard when encountering her on the street; Beaujoint calls her the pretty petite demon (in
La Malle Sanglante
, 8); Jaume also uses
petit démon
(in
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 59). Goron calls chapter 15 of
L’Amour Criminel
, in which Bompard turns herself in to the prefect, “The Appearance of the Petit Démon.”

  
4
  
“Are you afraid of me?”:
Goron, 274.

  
5
  
“What a nice necktie”:
Ibid., 345.

  
6
  
“C’est fait”:
Ibid., 274.

  
7
  
“a disconcerting aplomb”:
Jaume, 57.

  
8
  
“She shows the need”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 28, 1890.

  
9
  
“She is a suitable heroine”:
Ibid., Jan. 26, 1890.

10
  
“I am especially very happy”:
Jaume, 55.

11
  
“proved in the Gouffé case”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Jan. 30, 1890.

12
  
“certainly right”:
La Presse
, Jan. 24, 1890.

  
1
  
“Here a cook”:
Moriarty,
The Paris Law Courts
, 246.

  
2
  
“his role in this affair”:
Le Gil Blas
, Jan. 24, 1890.

  
3
  
“Eyraud had the real intention”:
Georges Garanger, police statement, Jan. 22, 1890, Archives de la Seine, 17.

  
4
  
“voyage companion”:
Ibid., 15.

  
5
  
“Ah, they are all like this”:
Le Figaro
, Jan. 29, 1890.

  
6
  
“The rascal knows men”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 62.

  
7
  
“The interest he shows”:
Ibid., 70.

  
8
  
“a vulgar prostitute”:
Ibid.

  
9
  
“My child!”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Jan. 30, 1890.

10
  
“The play-acting”:
Jaume, 62.