I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother
Douban
A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère
Michel Foucault (editor) translator: Frank Jellinek
overview
To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.
