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Geneviève Lhermitte (16 November 1966 – 28 February 2023) was a Belgian woman who killed all five of her children on 28 February 2007. She killed each of her children by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife stolen from a local grocery store while her husband was visiting family in Morocco.
Mar 3, 2023 · A Belgian woman who murdered her five children has been euthanised at her own request, 16 years after the killings. Genevieve Lhermitte killed her son and four daughters, aged three to 14, in the...
This same year Lhermitte spent s everal months in Brittany where he became fascinated with Breton culture; their costumes, their activities, their celebrations, the colorful nature of their life. Throughout the next five years he returned to this region on several occasions and exhibited more scenes from Breton life.
The title identifies the present work as a religious festival known in Breton as a 'Pardon' in the village of Plourin in Finistere in Brittany. According to Lhermitte's diary it was executed in Mont-Saint-Père, the artist's native town, after sketches and documents brought back from Brittany in the previous few years.
- oil on canvasOil PaintCanvasOil Painting
- Le Pardon de Plourin, Brittany
- Oil painting
Mar 4, 2023 · A Belgian woman who killed her five children has been euthanised 16 years later. Genevieve Lhermitte murdered her son and four daughters, all aged between three to 14, in the town of Nivelles on...
Apr 14, 2020 · It was in the summer of 1874 that Lhermitte decided to spend time in Brittany and soon he became fascinated with Breton culture, their celebrations, and the way the people, especially women, dressed in their Breton clothes.
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“Lhermitte was appreciated because he represented the “good old days.” …Throughout his life Lhermitte pointedly ignored the Industrial Revolution, fixing instead on the image of society before its disappearance, the vision of a paradise lost for the citizens of big cities, of a time frozen outside the march of history.”
