Reconstructing the facts of the murders of British scientist Sir Jack Drummond, his wife, and their young daughter in France in 1952, this work redefines one of France's most puzzling crimes and illustrates the profound changes in French society that took place following World War II.
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Reconstructing the facts of the murders of British scientist Sir Jack Drummond, his wife, and their young daughter in France in 1952, this work redefines one of France's most puzzling crimes and illustrates the profound changes in French society that took place following World War II.
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Lincoln. 2017. October 2017. University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9781612349459. 344 pages. hardcover. keywords: History True Crime France. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The spectacular murder of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 was one of the most notorious criminal cases in postwar Europe. It is still a matter of passionate debate in France. Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old proprietor of La Grand' Terre, Gaston Dominici, was brought to trial, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine. When Dominici was convicted, there was general agreement that the ignorant, pitiless, and depraved old peasant had gotten what he deserved. At the time, he stood for everything backward and brutish about a peasantry left behind in the wake of France's postwar transformation and burgeoning prosperity. But with time perspectives changed. Subsequent inquiries coupled with widespread doubts and misgivings prompted President de Gaulle to order his release from prison in 1960, and by the 1980s many in France came to believe--against all evidence--that Gaston Dominici was innocent. He had become a romanticized symbol of a simpler, genuine, and somehow more honest life from a bygone era. Reconstructing the facts of the Drummond murders, The Dominici Affair redefines one of France's most puzzling crimes and illustrates the profound changes in French society that took place following the Second World War. inventory #42014.
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