An unknown animal, which they described as a werewolf, caused more than 215 victims among deaths, dismembered and wounded between 1764 and 1767, for whose hunt the King deployed an army of 20,000 men
Engraving published in 1840 in the ‘Journal des chasseurs’, about the hunt for the Gevaudan beast
13/06/2023
Updated at 2:10 p.m.
«On the first of July 1764, Jeanne Boulet was buried, without sacraments, after being killed by a ferocious beast in the presence of Joseph Vigier and Jean Reboul». This is how the brief record annotated in her parish book by the priest of…
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