Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (46 page)

  
1
  
“A Criminal Heroine”:
San Francisco Chronicle
, Feb. 7, 1890.

  
2
  
“He Can Tell Good Brandy”:
The Washington Post
, Mar. 16, 1890.

  
3
  
“Ah, there’s something here”:
La Presse
, Jan. 27, 1890.

  
4
  
“I do not hide”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 74.

  
5
  
“We have seen her in black”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Feb. 6, 1890.

  
6
  
“côtelette de mouton”:
Le Figaro
, Jan. 28, 1890.

  
7
  
“La belle Gabrielle”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 292.

  
8
  
“I would have never thought”:
Le Figaro
, Jan. 30, 1890.

  
9
  
“Gabrielle tells stories”:
Jaume, 58.

10
  
“tied up Gouffé”:
Ibid., 71.

11
  
“This woman is a nervous person”:
Le Gil Blas
, Jan. 24, 1890.

12
  
“offers attentive observers”:
La Presse
, Jan. 27, 1890.

13
  
“Like a globule of mercury”:
Veith,
Hysteria
, 1.

14
  
“acridity in [women’s] sexual organs”:
Didi-Huberman,
Invention of Hysteria
, 72.

15
  
“the most unnerving impudence”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Jan. 28, 1890.

16
  
“Each time I see Gabrielle”:
Jaume, 75.

17
  
“I allow that Gabrielle”:
Ibid., 71.

18
  
“Monsieur Garanger does not believe”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 28, 1890.

19
  
“She is, he says”:
Ibid., Jan. 26, 1890.

20
  
“Gabrielle submitted”:
La Presse
, Jan. 27, 1890.

21
  
“For this reason”:
The New York Times
, Feb. 22, 1903.

22
  
“It’s a new theory”:
Le Figaro
, Jan. 26, 1890.

23
  
“For the first time”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 28, 1890.

24
  
“These stories of hypnotism”:
Jaume, 77.

  
1
  
“described how wonderful”:
Freud,
The Collected Papers: Vol. 1
, 11.

  
2
  
“Here, the assiduous student”:
Goetz et al.,
Charcot—Constructing Neurology
, 12.

  
3
  
“The entire page”:
Ibid., 25.

  
4
  
“grand asylum”:
Guillain,
J. M. Charcot 1825–1893
, 35.

  
5
  
“causes presumed”:
Didi-Huberman,
Invention of Hysteria
, 15.

  
6
  
“Behind those walls”:
Ibid.

  
7
  
“museum of living pathology”:
Guillain, 10.

  
8
  
“While unquestionably”:
Ibid.

  
9
  
“What do you want”:
Bourneville and Regnard,
Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière
, 140.

10
  
“For Charcot, a neurologist”:
Janet,
Psychological Healing
, 166.

11
  
“prudent and conservative”:
Guillain, 167.

12
  
“The arch of the mouth”:
Goetz, 272.

13
  
“frowning eyebrows”:
Guillain, 17.

14
  
“imperious masked face”:
Goetz, 268–69.

15
  
“Just like plays”:
Didi-Huberman, 243.

16
  
“furnished in perfect taste”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Jan. 28, 1890.

  
1
  
“Grévin must be”:
Schwartz,
Spectacular Realities
, 102.

  
2
  
“O glorious transitory”:
Ibid., 110.

  
3
  
“famous trunk”:
Le Gil Blas
, Feb. 4, 1890.

  
4
  
“I was beginning to go moldy here”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 73.

  
5
  
“Her fame is immense”:
Ibid.

  
6
  
“There will be a lot of people”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 7, 1890.

  
7
  
“Had they only known”:
Jaume, 77.

  
8
  
“They would have wanted”:
Le Petit Journal
, Feb. 8, 1890.

  
9
  
“I pity Wahlen and Robert”:
Jaume, 76.

10
  
“She burst out laughing”:
Le Petit Journal
, Feb. 8, 1890.

11
  
“Only Napoleon’s entrance”:
Jaume, 78.

12
  
“So many people!”:
Ibid.

13
  
“Ah, I’ve had a success!”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Feb. 9, 1890.

14
  
“There’s not even a mirror”:
Ibid., Feb. 10, 1890.

  
1
  
“Only … you were brunette”:
Le Petit Journal
, Feb. 9, 1890.

  
2
  
“He threw it like one”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 9, 1890.

  
3
  
“Well, you are more gallant”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 83.

  
4
  
“Coachman, to the palace!”:
L’Express de Lyon
, Feb. 11, 1890.

  
5
  
“I didn’t do anything”:
Le Nouvelliste de Lyon
, Feb. 12, 1890.

  
6
  
“he had rarely seen”:
Le Progrès de Lyon
, Feb. 11, 1890.

  
7
  
“We have come”:
L’Express de Lyon
, Feb. 11, 1890.

  
8
  
“Should one laugh”:
Jaume, 83.

  
9
  
“I am enchanted”:
Le Lyon Républicain
, Feb. 11, 1890.

10
  
“There is an unconsciousness so profound”:
Ibid.

11
  
“I did everything”:
Ibid., Feb. 12, 1890.

12
  
“I never loved him”:
L’Express de Lyon
, Feb. 12, 1890.

13
  
“I didn’t do anything”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 13, 1890.

14
  
“Very skillful”:
Jaume, 75.

15
  
“this sad heroine”:
Le Lyon Républicain
, Feb. 11, 1890.

  
1
  
“I was gravely ill”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 261.

  
2
  
“The truth is”:
Le Gil Blas
, Feb. 14, 1890.

  
3
  
“Yesterday, rumors circulated”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 13, 1890.

  
4
  
“They advertised their errand”:
The New York Times
, Feb. 13, 1890.

  
5
  
“The journalists here”:
Letter from Soudais and Houlier, February 17, 1890, Archives de la Seine, 1583, 10.

  
6
  
“We do not yet have”:
Ibid., 2.

  
7
  
“At night he was heard pacing”:
The New York Sun
, June 23, 1890.

  
8
  
“Except for his eyes”:
Interview with Florence Stout, July 5, 1890, Archives de la Seine, 1855, 2.

  
9
  
“My god!”:
Darmon,
La Malle à Gouffé
, 163.

10
  
“I will kill myself”:
The New York Sun
, June 23, 1890.

11
  
“I have plenty of money”:
Interview with Florence Stout, 14.

12
  
“Here are dresses that cost”:
Ibid.

13
  
“I never saw such”:
The New York Sun
, June 23, 1890.

14
  
“I shall make the story”:
Ibid.

  
1
  
“This man finds himself”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Mar. 8, 1890.

  
2
  
“had in his life”:
Le Matin
, July 3, 1890.

  
3
  
“With a top-flight address”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Mar. 8, 1890.

  
4
  
“I will buy it from you”:
Ibid.

  
5
  
“We have determined”:
Letter from Soudais and Houlier, Feb. 20, 1890, Archives de la Seine, 1585, 10.

  
6
  
“There is no less than”:
Letter from Soudais and Houlier, Mar. 4, 1890, Archives de la Seine, 1600, 2.

  
7
  
“Decidedly, Eyraud has”:
Le Figaro
, May 2, 1890.

  
8
  
“They learned many things”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 89.

  
9
  
“Houlier and Soudais had toured”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 314.

10
  
“If these facts are true”:
Le Gil Blas
, Apr. 18, 1890.

11
  
“Once more has luck”:
Ibid., Apr. 3, 1890.

12
  
“The simple expedient”:
Le Radical
, Apr. 15, 1890.

13
  
“This man exerts such”:
Le Figaro
, Mar. 9, 1890.

  
1
  
“for these men”:
Harris,
Murders and Madness
, 95.

  
2
  
“He hit me”:
Lacassagne,
L’Affaire Gouffé
, 75.

  
3
  
“Woman is rarely wicked”:
Lombroso and Ferrero,
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
, 182.

  
4
  
“One can easily understand”:
Lacassagne, 69.

  
5
  
“the bright look”:
Ibid., 68.

  
6
  
“these acts were exactly”:
Ibid., 80.

  
7
  
“If a hypnotized person”:
Affaire Gouffé
, 249.

  
8
  
“It did not enter”:
Lacassagne, 81.

  
9
  
“Gabrielle Bompard is not”:
Ibid., 83.

  
1
  
“He knew by a series”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 27, 1890.

  
2
  
“All the newspapers”:
Transfer of Eyraud in Havana, Archives de la Seine, 1653–1654, 15.

  
3
  
“Look, the portrait of Eyraud”:
Ibid., 16.

  
1
  
“Gautier, I saw you earlier”:
Transfer of Eyraud in Havana, Archives de la Seine, 1653–1654, 19.

  
2
  
“Again, it was this satyr’s”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 332.

  
3
  
“Buenas noches”:
Transfer of Eyraud in Havana, Archives de la Seine, 1653–1654, 29.

  
4
  
“Yes, monsieur”:
Ibid., 33.

  
1
  
“Arrestation d’Eyraud”:
Le Petit Journal
, May 23, 1890; the story of Eyraud’s capture was in
The New York Herald
, May 27, 1890.

  
2
  
“This time it’s not a lie”:
L’Écho de Paris
, May 24, 1890.

  
3
  
“The news is very official”:
Le Petit Journal
, May 23, 1890.

  
4
  
“Ah good news”:
L’Écho de Paris
, May 27, 1890.

  
5
  
“Don’t leave me alone”:
Ibid.

  
6
  
“Another sentiment”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 92.

  
7
  
“Yes. Two thousand miles away”:
The New York Herald
, June 13, 1890.

  
8
  
“Farewell, Cuba”:
Ibid., June 17, 1890.

  
9
  
“The world thinks”:
Ibid.

10
  
“My greatest punishment”:
Transfer of Eyraud in Havana, Archives de la Seine, 1653–1654, 6.

11
  
“The first time”:
The New York Herald
, June 17, 1890.

12
  
“This very wise and proper”:
Ibid., June 30, 1890.

13
  
“He has nothing”:
Ibid., June 17, 1890.

14
  
“the
Lafayette
’s bugaboo”:
Ibid., June 30, 1890.