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Monsters of the Gévaudan

The Making of a Beast

Jay M. Smith

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674047167

Publication Date: 03/15/2011

392 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

25 halftones, 3 maps

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Jay M. Smith is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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