Valentine Goby

In her novel, Qui touch à mon corps je le tue, Valentine Goby retells the true story of Marie-Louise Girard who was a faiseuse d'anges, or avorteuse who was guillotined in 1943 by the Vichy government which had just one year before made abortion a capital offense. 

On Du jour au lendemain (10/6), Goby discusses the three characters of the book: Marie G, the faiseuse d'anges who is one of the last women guillotined, Lucie L., the woman having the abortion, and Henri D., the executioner. 

I remember walking out of Claude Chabrol's Une affaire de femmes, also based on Marie-Louise Girard, and I wouldn't want to read a book that left me with that feeling. But the novel, and Goby, sound intriguing. 

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