Blue-beard, a Contribution to History and Folk-lore: Being the History of Gilles de Retz, of Brittany, France, who was Executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D., and who was the Original of Blue-beard in the Tales of Mother Goose |
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| Title | Blue-beard, a Contribution to History and Folk-lore: Being the History of Gilles de Retz, of Brittany, France, who was Executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D., and who was the Original of Blue-beard in the Tales of Mother Goose |
| Author | Thomas Wilson |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jul 12, 2007 |
| Length | 212 pages |
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