Writing History from a Crime: The Violette Nozière Case
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City*Talk in French with English translation In the summer of 1933, in Paris, an 18-year old woman poisoned her parents and the crime became a great cause célèbre of the interwar era. This talk will present a new interpretation of a famous French patricide and further explore the writing of history from a judicial case: the social imaginary and its…