“In violentia veritas” by Catherine Girard: a family investigation beyond good and evil
Henri Girard, known as Georges Arnaud, in the 1960s. Jean Ribiere/Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho
Georges Arnaud's daughter, revealing that her father was indeed a murderer, seeks, after a long family investigation, the reasons for his actions.
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I subscribeOn the morning of October 24, 1941, at the Château d'Escoire, in the center of the Dordogne, the gendarmerie, alerted by Henri Girard, discovered three bodies. Henri Girard's father, his aunt, and their servant, massacred with a billhook. The only survivor, Henri Girard, was sentenced to death. Then acquitted. This news item, which made headlines and inspired dozens of books, remained, to this day, an enigma that has never been solved. Henri Girard had become famous again under the pseudonym of Georges Arnaud, a successful author – The Wages of Fear , in particular.
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