Abstract
After his initial work on Sade, Shibusawa wrote a four-part portrait of Gilles de Rais, the fifteenth-century French aristocrat and confessed serial killer of hundreds of children who is often cited as the basis for Perrault's fairy tale. Shibusawa inflects this assumption slightly, noting in his opening line that Gilles de Rais became known as 'Bluebeard' via Charles Perrault's fairy tale (2: 159).1 This series on Gilles de Rais-part of a larger project on black magic-ran in early 1961, the year after sales of his latest Sade translation had been banned, and was completed a month before his high-profile obscenity trial began in August 1961.
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