Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris (44 page)
Authors: Steven Levingston
CHAPTER 3
1
“Would you like to see”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 308.
2
“This man”:
Ibid., 152.
3
“You’re nice”:
Ibid., 151.
4
“He could do what he wanted”:
Ibid., 152.
5
“Women are like cutlets”:
Weber,
France
, 86.
6
“Don’t be afraid”:
Goron, 166.
7
“From: Paris 1231”:
Ibid., 200, and Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 81.
8
“What do you want”:
Le Figaro
, Nov. 13, 1889.
1
“tawny-colored”:
Wilkins,
Behind the French C.I.D.
, 11.
2
“Many people momentarily disappear”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 172.
3
“I didn’t have the power”:
Goron,
Les Mémoires de M. Goron
, 33.
4
“Little by little”:
Ibid., 51–52.
5
“I penetrated behind the scenes”:
Ibid., 53–54.
6
“I must confess”:
Wilkins, 12.
7
“a look as sharp as a needle”:
Ibid., 11.
8
“veritable museum”:
Moriarity,
The Paris Law Courts
, 241.
9
“Patriotic and conscientious”:
Ibid., 252.
10
“The judge of instruction”:
Ibid., 244.
11
“lacking in all psychological”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 6.
1
“Her father gave her”:
“Michel Eyraud et Gabrielle Bompard,” 81.
2
“a grand tendency”:
Le Matin
, Nov. 29, 1890.
3
“If one knew”:
Le Petit Journal
, late edition, Jan. 4, 1890.
4
“Bah!”:
Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 186.
1
“Whoever has not undressed”:
Skinner,
Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
, 22.
2
“There was first the problem”:
Ibid., 63.
3
“whose skin”:
Baldick,
Lives and Letters
, 293.
4
“glorious frenzy”:
Ibid., 322.
5
“where one finds practically”:
Schwartz,
Spectacular Realities
, 23.
6
“I myself don’t have any complaints”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 8.
7
“air of an ancient cavalry officer”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Nov. 11, 1889.
8
“The investigation so far”:
Ibid., Aug. 4, 1889.
9
“Like everyone else”:
Thompson, “The Thief-Takers of Paris,” 456.
1
“could wheel and deal”:
Le Figaro
, Feb. 3, 1890.
2
“Oh, this one here”:
Le Matin
, Dec. 18, 1890.
3
“indefinable as Marseille itself”:
Fisher,
Two Towns in Provence: A Considerable Town
, 5, 6.
4
“ferocious jealousy”:
Le Petit Journal
, Jan. 31, 1890.
5
“A point is clarified for me”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 58.
1
“My dear Goron”:
Goron,
Les Mémoires de M. Goron
, 159.
2
“A little shudder”:
Ibid.
3
“freedom of the press law”:
Schwartz,
Spectacular Realities
, 29.
4
“golden age of the press”:
Ibid., 27.
5
“This was well reciprocated”:
Goron, 194.
6
“must have rejoiced”:
Le Temps
, Nov. 13, 1887.
7
“I laughed with the professional”:
Goron, 164–65.
8
“The landau for a wedding”:
Ibid., 168.
9
“I had a pang”:
Ibid., 170.
10
“After nightfall”:
Ibid., 169.
11
“I had not known an impression”:
Ibid., 174.
12
“Au revoir”:
Ibid., 175.
13
“this butchery without grandeur”:
Ibid., 177–78.
14
“contempt for human life”:
Ibid., 179, 184.
15
“I understood quickly”:
Ibid., 196.
16
“How many times”:
Ibid., 203.
17
“The press has a tremendous skill”:
Ibid., 204.
18
“M. Goron … marches”:
Le Gil Blas
, Aug. 21, 1889.
19
“Rien, rien”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Aug. 7, 1889.
1
“Imagine … every kind”:
Weiner,
The Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris
, 22.
2
“ugly as a louse”:
Krämer and Daniels, “Pioneers of Movement Disorders,” 695.
3
“perilous task”:
Bérillon,
Premier Congrès International de l’Hypnotisme Expérimental et Thérapeutique
, 245.
4
“In this case”:
Ibid.
5
“experimental crimes”:
Ibid., 246.
6
“I am convinced”:
Ibid., 249.
7
“I had never heard”:
Delboeuf,
Magnétiseurs et Médecins
, 31.
8
“You cannot look at someone”:
Bérillon, 266.
9
“À l’Élysée!”
:
Harding,
The Astonishing Adventure of General Boulanger
, 189.
10
“It was the noisiest occasion”:
Delboeuf, 31.
11
“Back in 1887”:
Bérillon, 267.
12
“And so”:
Delboeuf, 32.
13
“Would you want me to bring”:
Ibid.
14
“Me! Me!”:
Ibid.
1
“I’ll find what stupidity”:
Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 62.
2
“I think that the victim”:
Lacassagne,
L’Affaire Gouffé
, 23.
1
“Faith is indispensable”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 193–94.
2
“If you are in a sinister place”:
Ibid.
3
“It is at present established”:
L’Éclair
, Aug. 27, 1889.
1
“One can understand”:
Lacassagne,
L’Affaire Gouffé
, 69.
2
“they lived riotously”:
The Morning Call
, May 22, 1890.
3
“Vanaerd was a hail fellow”:
The Salt Lake Herald
, Feb. 13, 1890.
4
“blue eyes of incomparable softness”:
L’Écho de Paris
, Jan. 30, 1890.
5
“one of those men”:
Le Figaro
, Jan. 28, 1890.
1
“You tell anyone”:
Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 79.
2
“with bad grace”:
Thorwald,
The Century of the Detective
, 120.
3
“I do not like money”:
Le Gaulois
, Mar. 21, 1890, in Darmon,
La Malle à Gouffé
, 49.
4
“You are incapable”:
La Presse
, Jan. 26, 1890.
5
“It is well-proven”:
Ibid.
6
“going from one person”:
Darmon, 50.
7
“There is a man who disappeared”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 207–8.
1
“Could it be one”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 17.
2
“You can’t accuse him”:
Darmon,
La Malle à Gouffé
, 54.
3
“One sees that it’s not necessary”:
La Jeune République
, Sept. 1, 1889.
4
“I tell you frankly”:
L’Éclair
, Sept. 3, 1889.
5
“In learning of the discovery”:
Jaume, 11.
6
“What do you want”:
L’Éclair
, Sept. 3, 1889.
7
“The more the newspapers”:
Ibid.
8
“Opinion continues”:
Le Figaro
, Sept. 4, 1889.
9
“I see … that Goron’s mustache”:
Jaume, 9–10.
1
“Where does the Gouffé case stand”:
Le Figaro
, Sept. 20, 1889.
2
“All right”:
Bouchardon,
La Malle Mystérieuse
, 78.
3
He then turned his attention:
Ticket details can be found in Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 200, 226; and Bouchardon, 81.
4
“Was he mistaken”:
Le Gil Blas
, Nov. 10, 1889.
5
“Now search inside”:
Bouchardon, 118.
6
“Listen, my friend”:
Goron, 219.
7
“a good man”:
Ibid.
8
“From this moment on”:
Ibid., 220.
9
“Monsieur Goron’s cookshops”:
Thorwald,
The Century of the Detective
, 46.
10
“What do you want”:
Goron, 221.
11
“If I was able to give”:
Bouchardon, 119.
12
“So I thought”:
Ibid., 221.
13
“I hoped that as a reward”:
Bouchardon, 119.
14
“It seemed to me”:
Ibid.
15
“The entire inquiry”:
Le Passe-Temps
, Nov. 24, 1889.
16
“an attitude”:
Ibid.
17
“It’s since the beginning of July”:
Goron, 224.
18
“M. Cornély came”:
Ibid., 224.
19
“No doubt is possible”:
Ibid.
20
“I had the excellent idea”:
Ibid., 215.
21
“I asked for a bit”:
Ibid.
22
“He recognized immediately”:
Ibid.
23
“naturally mistaken”:
Jaume,
La Vérité sur l’Affaire Gouffé
, 29.
24
“Decidedly, luck returned”:
Goron, 222.
25
“At the moment of the burial”:
Ibid., 222–23.
26
“Without this hat”:
Le Passe-Temps
, Nov. 24, 1889.
27
“This modest one”:
Goron, 223.
1
“If it pleases Providence”:
The Allahabad Pioneer
, Nov. 30, 1889, cited in Barker,
More San Francisco Memoirs 1852–1899
, 274, 275.
2
“San Francisco is a mad city”:
Ibid., 271.
3
“I am certainly grateful”:
Goron,
L’Amour Criminel
, 302.
4
“He is a regular brandy sharp”:
The Washington Post
, Mar. 16, 1890.
5
“He was way ahead”:
Ibid.