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People there, besides going to church to pray, didn't know any other way; people from every profession sought protection.
People, locksmiths seek out the divine Aloisius, weavers seek out the divine Crispinius, gardeners seek out the divine Anne...
Tonius, the perfume expert, sought out the holy Josephus. They, along with their wives and daughters, prayed together in the church.
They no longer left the church for eating, sleeping, or even during the day. They firmly believed that as long as safety existed, then...
Only under the desperate protection of the collective and in the presence of the Virgin Mary could one escape the monster and obtain the only safety.
Other, more intelligent individuals, seeing the church's apparent inability to provide assistance, formed secret societies and hired [unclear - possibly "high-paying" individuals] to help.
A sorceress, licensed to practice her faith from Gurdon, hid in a limestone cave beneath Grasse to serve the demons.
They held Mass to gain the devil's mercy. Others, especially the citizens of higher status and the educated...
The nobles, employing the most modern scientific methods, hypnotized their own house, causing their daughters to fall into a deep sleep.
They slept silently in their living room, attempting to miraculously protect themselves through a shared telepathic connection.
They were spared from the perpetrator's attack. Some groups organized pilgrimages of repentance, traveling from Grasse to Lanaple and back.
The monks of the five monasteries have arranged continuous prayer services, frequently singing hymns, so that both day and night...
Sometimes, in one corner of the city, sometimes in another, the mournful song never ceased. Almost none.
People engage in labor.
The citizens of Grasse lay idly, driven mad, anxiously awaiting the next murder. None of them...
People are skeptical that another murder is imminent. Everyone secretly anticipates the arrival of terrifying news, the only one...
Hopefully, this news has nothing to do with me, but involves someone else.
However, the provincial, prefectural, and municipal governments were not affected by the public's hysteria this time. Since the killing...
After the murderer of the girl was identified, a power struggle erupted between the governors of Grasse, Dragenian, and Toulon, and between the city government and...
For the first time, a well-planned and effective collaboration emerged between the police force, local administrators, the council, and the navy.
The reason why the ruling faction took concerted action was twofold: firstly, they feared a popular uprising; secondly...
The fact is that after Lorre Richis's murder, people had already obtained clues and laid a trap to capture him.
It's entirely possible to catch the killer. The killer has already been exposed. Clearly, he's the one who stayed at the hotel the night the murder occurred.
The suspicious tannery worker, who had vanished without a trace the following morning from the livestock pen of the inn in Lanapule, was apprehended. According to the owner, the horse...
According to the consistent accounts provided by the husband and Richis, the killer was an unremarkable, short man dressed in brown...
Their outer garments, along with coarse linen travel attire, were worn, although the three witnesses' recollections remained strangely vague in their accounts.
Strangely, for example, they can't describe the person's face shape, hair color, or speech characteristics, but the boss says, if
He wasn't mistaken; the stranger walked with a limp, leaning slightly to the left, as if one leg was injured, or perhaps...
One leg is crippled.
Based on these circumstances, on the day of the murder, at noon, two cavalry detachments on the Marey Highway conducted an operation against the perpetrator.
The pursuit continued in two directions, one along the coast and the other along inland roads towards Marseille. Volunteers were deployed in the area near Lanaple.
Police launched a manhunt. Two officials from the Grasse Magistrates' Court traveled to Niza to investigate the tannery workers. In F...
The ports of Reruus, Shana, and Antibes inspected all departing ships bound for the Savais border.
Every road was blocked, and tourists had to show identification. This was done at all the city gates and in various villages of Grasse, Vence, and Gouldon.
On the church doors, wanted posters for the murderer were posted for literate people to read aloud. These posters were read three times a day.
The speculations people have about the deformed foot undoubtedly support the view that the culprit is the devil himself.
This viewpoint, rather than providing helpful insights, has instilled more fear in people.
Until the Chief Justice of the Glass Court, acting on behalf of Richis, offered a reward of no less than two hundred rupees for information leading to the capture of the murderer.
After Livermore, several tanners were arrested in Grasse, Opio, and Gourdon due to whistleblowing, and
And unfortunately, one of them was lame. Although several people testified that this person was not present at the time, people...
They still intended to torture him severely. At this time, ten days after the murder, someone from the city sentry post came to the city government.
The agency provided the judge with the following information: his name was Gabriel Tagliasco, and he was a captain at the outpost.
He was on duty at the palace gate as usual that day when someone, as he now knew, matched the description on the wanted poster.
The account was quite accurate; I approached him and struck up a conversation, repeatedly and eagerly inquiring about the Second Senator and his entourage that morning.
Which route to take when leaving the city. This matter itself didn't attract his attention then or later, and besides, it was up to him to decide.
He certainly wouldn't remember this person either—this person was completely unworthy of attention—if he weren't...
I saw him again yesterday, this time in Grasse, at the Louvre, at the workshop of Master Drew and Madame Alnoufie.
Fangqian. He also said that when he saw that person walk back to the factory yesterday, he noticed that he was walking with a noticeable limp.
An hour later, Grenouille was arrested. Lanapulena, who was staying in Grasse to identify other suspects, was also arrested.
The innkeeper and the stable boy immediately recognized him as the tanner who had stayed overnight at their inn. They said, "That's him."
He was not just anyone; he was a wanted murderer.
People searched the workshop, and the small hut in the olive grove behind Francis Abbey. In one corner...
Lohr Richis's shredded pajamas, undershirt, and red hair lay scattered about, barely concealed. People dug into the ground...
The clothes and hair of the other twenty-four girls gradually came into view. The wooden sticks and linen weapons used to kill the victims were also revealed.
The travel bags were all there. The evidence was irrefutable. The church bells rang. The court president declared that the heinous murder...
After being pursued for nearly a year, the girl's killer was finally arrested and is now in custody.
Initially, people didn't believe the announcement. They thought it was an attempt by the authorities to cover up their incompetence and appease the public.
An excuse for unrest. The old rumors that the murderer had gone to Grenoble remain fresh in people's minds.
This time, fear had seeped into people's souls.
The next day, when the evidence was publicly displayed in the church square in front of the government building—the scene was truly horrifying.
Opposite the cathedral, at the front of the square, twenty-five sets of clothing along with twenty-five locks of hair hung on a row of wooden poles.
Like a scarecrow—public opinion changed immediately.
Thousands of people marched in procession through the eerie and gruesome exhibition space. Relatives of the victims recognized their loved ones' clothing.
A deafening scream erupted. The other spectators were divided; some wanted to see the spectacle, while others wanted to witness it firsthand.
They believed it and demanded that the murderer be brought to justice. Their shouts echoed through the sky, and the small square was teeming with people.
The unease in the room created a sense of threat, so the court president decided to send someone to bring Grenouille from his cell and make him stand...
A window on the second floor of the government building.
As soon as Grenouille stood at the window, the shouting immediately ceased. The square fell silent, as if in a cruel...
On a hot summer midday, everything outside was either in the open fields or hidden in the shade of houses. No more could be heard.
Footsteps, coughs, and breathing. People stared, mouths agape, for minutes. No one could understand.
That frivolous, short, hunched-over man standing at the upstairs window, that insignificant person, that pathetic wretch...
That good-for-nothing committed twenty-five murders. He doesn't seem like a murderer at all. Indeed, no one can say for sure that he...
What did everyone imagine the murderer, this devil, to be like? But everyone agreed that someone like him...
No! However—although this remaining criminal is completely different from what people imagined; therefore, his appearance; just as people could
That viewpoint is unconvincing, but it's very strange that this flesh-and-blood person standing at the window, so fierce...
The fact that the hand could only belong to him, and not anyone else, had a convincing effect. All of them...
They were thinking: This can't be real! — But at the same moment, they knew it must be real.
However, it wasn't until the guards took the dwarf back into the dark room, that is, until he was no longer in their sight,
He's no longer visible; he only remains in my memory—though a very brief one—almost as if he were...
The look of shock only disappeared when the concept of a heinous murderer formed in people's minds.
And it began to react: its mouth closed, and thousands of eyes became active again. Then came a thunderous roar.
A furious cry of revenge rang out: "Hand him over to us!" They planned to storm into the government building and strangle him with their own hands.
Tear him to pieces. The guards struggled mightily to block the gate and push the crowd back. Grenouille
They were quickly taken to the hospital car. The court president went to the window and promised to handle the case swiftly and severely. Despite this, another [time/period] passed...
It took several hours for the crowd to disperse, and several days for the whole city to calm down.
In fact, the trial of Grenouille proceeded extremely smoothly, because not only was the evidence overwhelming, but the defendant himself...
During the interrogation, the man confessed to the murders for which he was accused.
However, when asked about his motives, his answers were always unsatisfactory. He repeatedly said that he needed...
The girls, therefore, he killed them. As for his purpose in needing them, how should we interpret "he needed them"?
He remained silent. So they tortured him, hanging him upside down and injecting him with seven-element dehydration.
He put iron on his feet, but it had no effect whatsoever. He felt no pain in his body, never groaned or cried out, unless someone...
When his family asked him again, he still said, "I need them." The judges believed he was mentally ill. They cancelled his sentence.
Torture was used, and it was decided to discontinue the interrogation, thus closing the case.
At this point, a delay occurred, and a legal dispute arose between the Dragenian government, which governs Lanaple, and the Aix-en-Provence parliament.
The dispute arose, and both institutions wanted to hear the case. However, the judges in Glass would not allow anyone to deprive them of the right to handle the case.
Their right. They are the ones who catch criminals, and the vast majority of murders occur in their jurisdiction.
They handed the murderer over to another court, and the public's outrage will surely threaten their safety.
The verdict was delivered on April 15, 1766, and the judgment was read aloud to the defendant in his prison cell. "Manufacturing incense..."
"The water's companion, Baptiste Grenouille," the judgment stated, "should be brought to the city gate within forty-eight hours."
On the tree-lined boulevard in front, there he was tied face up to a wooden cross, and then the executioner used an iron rod...