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I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother
A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
Michel Foucault
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...
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