The Beast of Gévaudan: What Slaughtered Villagers Across 18th-Century France?
Between 1764 and 1767, a series of fatal animal attacks shook Gévaudan, a mountainous former province in south-central France. The victims were often children, young people, and women tending livestock in exposed country. The case became one of the most famous predator mysteries in European history, but its strongest records are not monster stories. They are parish burial entries, hunting accounts, reward documents, expense ledgers, newspapers, and two examinations of dead animals.
This episode begins with Jacques Portefaix and six other children, who reportedly resisted an attacking animal…
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