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881 - [SUICIDE - CURIOSITY]. The Last Three Days of a Suicide. Paris, Levasseur; Montmorency, Leduc, 1829. 30 pp. in-12, paperback, with a temporary cover.
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[SUICIDE - CURIOSITY]. The Last Three Days of a Suicide. Paris, Levasseur; Montmorency, Leduc, 1829. 30 pp. in-12, paperback, with a temporary cover. A very curious anonymous pamphlet recounting the true and tragic story of Stéphane D. (a 20-year-old cashier at the newspaper *Le Voleur*) and his mistress Laure (a 17-year-old milliner), who committed suicide together on April 29, 1829, at an inn in Montmorency (at the *Cheval Blanc*). This incident notably inspired Alfred de Vigny to write his poems “Les Amants de Montmorency.” Annotations in pencil. This copy contains, at the end, a handwritten administrative report detailing the incident and identifying the ill-fated couple. Included: Louis PROAL (1843–?), criminologist and author of several essays on suicide. The Double Suicide of Love. No place, no date. 24 pp. in-8, paperback. With plain pink dust jacket. An interesting publication related to the same incident, later published in 1897 in *Archives d’anthropologie criminelle*.
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