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The Dominici Affair

Murder and Mystery in Provence

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The Dominici Affair

Auteur(s): Martin Kitchen
Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
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Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, 75-year-old proprietor of La Grand' Terre, Gaston Dominici, was brought to trial, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine.

When Dominici was convicted, there was general agreement that the ignorant, pitiless, and depraved old peasant had gotten what he deserved. At the time, he stood for everything backward and brutish about a peasantry left behind in the wake of France's postwar transformation and burgeoning prosperity. But with time perspectives changed. Subsequent inquiries coupled with widespread doubts and misgivings prompted President de Gaulle to order his release from prison in 1960, and, by the 1980s, many in France came to believe - against all evidence - that Gaston Dominici was innocent. He had become a romanticized symbol of a simpler, genuine, and, somehow, more honest life from a bygone era.

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This book reports events and makes no judgment on who the killer was because it's pretty impossible to know. The lies on top lies make it impossible to understand what happened. I can't comprehend the reason for the lies and ever-changing stories from the family unless they were involved. I found the whole thing fascinating in both the family, community, politics and the way the story changed from killer to mistreated heroic peasant.

interesting series of events

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A very thorough and comprehensive book! An interesting case but fraught with inconsistencies, false accusations and shoddy police work. No wonder it was so complex to assign guilt! I found myself getting a bit confused at times, and wish I’d drawn a family tree and a sketch of the crime scene. A bit on the long so
side for me.

Thorough!

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