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Little demon in the city of light, a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris, Steven Levingston

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Little demon in the city of light, a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris, Steven Levingston
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Little demon in the city of light
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869283905
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Steven Levingston
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a true story of murder and mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
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The thrilling--and so wonderfully French--story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official by a ruthless con man and his pliant mistress, an international manhunt, a sensational trial, and an inquiry into the limits of hypnotic power. In France at the end of the nineteenth century a great debate raged over the question of whether someone could be hypnotically compelled to commit a crime in violation of his or her moral convictions..
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