THERE once lived a hideously blue-bearded man who slit the throats of his half-dozen wives, stashing their corpses in the basement of his castle one by one. So goes the legendary folk tale “Bluebeard” ...
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Or more disturbing at least. That’s the case in Valerie Ogden’s biography of Gilles de Rais, 15 th century Baron of France and the man who became known in ...
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