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Jun 26, 2017 · June 26, 2017. The beast of Gévaudan terrorized French villagers for three years, killing around 100 and injuring nearly 300. Wikimedia Commons. The monster’s first victim was Jeanne Boulet, a ...
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- The First Attacks by The Beast of Gévaudan
- Hunting The Mysterious Monster
- The People of Gévaudan Fight Back
- What Was The Beast of Gévaudan?
Gévaudan was a quiet region, secluded safely in the mountains of Margeride in the south of France and largely cut off from the outside world. Life there was peaceful — until 1764. That year, a young woman watching a herd of cattle claimed that something terrifying had tried to attack her. She described the beast as “like a wolf, yet not a wolf.” Tw...
Facing a terrifying and dangerous beast, the people of Gévaudan prepared a massive response. Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, the captain of the local infantry, and Étienne Lafont, a regional government delegate, were joined by 30,000 volunteers to hunt it down. They scoured the countryside, laid traps with poisoned bait, and even had some volunteers dress l...
Locals often had better luck fending off attacks. A group of children in January 1675, led by 10-year-old Jacques Portefaix, were said to have driven off the beast with sticks. And a young woman named Marie-Jeanne Valet impaled the Beast of Gévaudan with a bayonet when it attacked her that summer. The problem got so bad that it began to attract the...
To this day, no one is entirely sure what terrorized the people of Gévaudan in the 1760s. But several theories have emerged. The most prominent theory is that the beast was exactly what the first witness described — a Eurasian wolf. Or, more likely, the Beast of Gévaudan was a particularly aggressive pack of wolves. The animals are native to the re...
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The Beast of Gévaudan (French: La Bête du Gévaudan, IPA: [la bɛt dy ʒevodɑ̃]; Occitan: La Bèstia de Gavaudan) is the historic name associated with a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (consisting of the modern-day department of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains of south-central France between 1764 and 1767.
Nov 20, 2022 · The Real Story of the Beast of Gévaudan. France is a country famous for food, wine, chauvinism, and existential dread — a sort of banal but cloying internal crisis popularized by philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre in the 20th century. It focuses on the pain of being a free-thinking and acting human being laden with responsibilities.
May 28, 2020 · On October 8, 1764, hours after a mauling, the Beast was seen at Chateau de la Baume, stalking a herdsman. Hunters followed the animal into the estate’s woods and flushed the animal into the open.
- Joseph A. Williams
Oct 21, 2021 · The wooded slopes of Mont Mouchet, where Jean Chastel is reputed to have slain the beast on June 19, 1767. At the foot of the mountain is his hometown, La Besseyre-Saint-Mary. Alamy/ACI
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Mar 16, 2011 · Wolf, hyena, hybrid—for centuries the French have argued about the identity of a creature that killed more than a hundred people in the southern countryside. But the real mystery is how the Beast of the Gévaudan was transformed from history into myth. by Susan Hardy. T he first victim of la Bête was a fourteen-year-old girl named Jeanne ...
