Again and again Mme Couderc, of Saint-Ouen, was prevented from hanging herself from her window bolt. Exasperated, she fled across the fields.It is a collection of faits-divers printed in Le Matin in 1906, written by notoriously laconic writer Felix Feneon and only preserved because his mistress collected them.
Amorous hatred caused Alice Gallois, of Vaujours, to throw acid in the face of her step-brother, and, accidentally, a passerby. She's all of 14.Feneon was an anarchist. He was arrested after a bombing and detonators were found in his closet at his office in the Ministry of War. He claimed his father had found them in the street. Challenged on this in court he replied, "The examining magistrate asked me why I hadn't throw them out the window instead of taking them to the Ministry. So you see, it is possible to find detonators in the street." He was acquitted.
"May the will of Allah be done!" cried the Berber Igoucinem yesterday, at Bougie, before the guillotine.(The name Igoucinem does not appear in Google.)
Translated, and with an introduction, by Luc Sante.
