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 |
| Subjects | Bluebeard (Legendary character) |
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