Trial of Gilles De Rais

"This book about the notorious 15th-century serial killer of young children, written by France's famous connoisseur of transgression--the man the surrealist Andr Breton labeled an 'excremental philosopher'--represents a marriage not make in heaven, perhaps, but surely nowhere on this earth....the fact is that "The Trial of Gilles de Rais" gives us Bataille at his most accessible--he had been trained as a medievalist librarian, after all--and is probably, taken in its entirety, the best thing now available in English on one of the most bizarre figures in European history."Bataille, Georges is the author of 'Trial of Gilles De Rais', published 1991 under ISBN 9781878923028 and ISBN 1878923021.