“pronounced :”j-eye-uls-da-ray”
(soft “j”)
(not “g”)
(don’t use “g” to make a “soft j” sound in a word)
(that should be a rule)
(“lana del ray”)
(1404 – 1440)
(died at age 36)
(“breton knight”)
(“Gilles de Montmorency-Laval” ([də ʁɛ]; prob. c. September 1405 – 26 October 1440), “Baron de Rais”, was a knight and lord from ‘Brittany’, Anjou, and ‘Poitou’, a leader in the ‘french army’, and a ‘companion-in-arms’ of ‘Joan of Arc’)
(he is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed ‘serial killer’ of children)
(first assaults on children occurred between ‘spring 1432’ and ‘spring 1433’)
(by his own “confession”)
(a member of the “House of Montmorency-Laval”, ‘Gilles de Rais’ grew up under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather and increased his fortune by marriage)
(he earned the favour of the ‘Duke of Brittany’ and was admitted to the ‘french court’)
(from 1427 to 1435, ‘Gilles’ served as a commander in the ‘Royal Army’, and fought alongside ‘Joan of Arc’ against the ‘English’ and their ‘Burgundian’ allies during the “Hundred Years’ War”, for which he was appointed “Marshal of France”)
(in 1434 /’1435, he retired from military life, depleted his wealth by staging an extravagant theatrical spectacle of his own composition, and was accused of dabbling in ‘the occult’)
(after 1432 ‘Gilles’ was accused of engaging in a series of child murders, with victims possibly numbering in the hundreds)
recite this before a song:
(give credit to ‘jean benedetti’)
“[The boy] was pampered and dressed in better clothes than he had ever known. The evening began with a large meal and heavy drinking, particularly hippocras, which acted as a stimulant. The boy was then taken to an upper room to which only Gilles and his immediate circle were admitted. There he was confronted with the true nature of his situation. The shock thus produced on the boy was an initial source of pleasure for Gilles…”
(the killings came to an end in 1440, when a violent dispute with a clergyman led to an ecclesiastical investigation which brought the crimes to light, and attributed them to ‘Gilles’)
(at his trial the parents of missing children in the surrounding area and Gilles’ own confederates in crime testified against him)
(‘Gilles’ was condemned to death and hanged at Nantes on 26 October 1440)
(“Gilles de Rais” is believed to be the inspiration for the 1697 fairy tale “Bluebeard” (“Barbe bleue”) by “charles perrault”)
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