Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France. Gayle K. Brunelle, Annette Finley-Croswhite

Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France



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Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France Gayle K. Brunelle, Annette Finley-Croswhite ebook pdf
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Language: English
Page: 297
ISBN: 0807136166, 9780807136164

From Publishers Weekly

On May 16, 1937, Laetitia Toureaux, a 29-year-old Italian-born factory worker, was murdered in an otherwise empty first-class compartment on a Paris métro train. The case has never been solved, and the case files were ordered sealed for 101 years. In this fascinating book, historians Brunelle (California State, Fullerton) and Finley-Croswhite (Old Dominion) reveal that Toureaux was no mere factory worker. Ambitious but naïve, she was involved, both personally and politically, with a secret, extremist fascist group known as the Cagoule; she also worked for a detective agency and was an informer for both the French police and the Italian secret service. The authors look at the bitterly fractious world of 1930s French politics and explore in depth both Toureaux's enigmatic life and the press's portrayal of her as a loose woman and social climber. The authors also delve into the violent history of the Cagoule, which broke away from the better-known Action Française. Finally, they provide a speculative but strong plausible case for who murdered Toureaux and why. Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite have produced an exceptionally fine work that is well-researched and documented and consistently compelling. (May)
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About the Author

Gayle K. Brunelle is a professor of history at California State University at Fullerton and the author of The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630.

Annette Finley-Croswhite is a professor of history and chair of the department of history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is also the author of Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610.



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