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The creature prowled in the evenings and in the mornings. What was the animal? It tried to capture the youngest one, but it was successfully fought off by the older boy. A statue of Marie-Jeanne Valet fighting the Beast of Gévaudan in France.Even children were celebrated for taking on the Beast. About 100 men, women and children reportedly fell victim to La Bête du Gévaudan.

The Beast of Gévaudan carried out its first recorded attack in the early summer of 1764. Antoine was awarded with money and titles and the corpse of the animal was stuffed and sent to the royal court.But attacks started again in December, according to an account in the 1898 volume of the The royal court chose to ignore these new attacks, insisting that Antoine had killed the creature.
(Musée Fantastique de la Bête du Gévaudan) ... Duhamel concluded, “You will undoubtedly think, like I do, that this is a monster [hybrid], the father of which is a lion. Wolf Attacks in Gévaudan “An 18th-century engraving of Antoine de Beauterne slaying the wolf of Chazes.” (Source: Wikipedia) About 95 percent of the carnivore attacks on humans in Gévaudan during the years 1764 to 1767 can be attributed to that single animal that was referred to as la bête… Finally, a sudden outbreak of attacks in early June 1767 compelled a local nobleman, the Marquis d’Apcher, to An autopsy of the animal revealed human remains inside, and the animal had non-wolf characteristics as described by witnesses.

This is what we have certified by more than three hundred people from all around who came to see him:"Despite the widely held interpretation, based on most of the historical research, that the beast was a wolfFor this was the land of the ever-memorable Beast, the Artist's conception of one of the Beasts of Gévaudan, 18th-century engraving by A.F. A young woman named Marie Jeanne Valet, who was tending cattle in the Mercoire forest near the town of Throughout the remainder of 1764, more attacks were reported across the region. It was as large as a calf or sometimes a horse. The beast's fur was described as tawny or russet in color but its back was streaked with black and a white heart-shaped pattern was noted on its underbelly.The Beast of Gévaudan committed its first recorded attack in the early summer of 1764. On January 12, 1765, Jacques Portefaix and seven friends were attacked by the beast. It had an elongated head similar to that of a greyhound, with a flattened snout, pointed ears, and a wide mouth sitting atop a broad chest. of Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, Pourcher, Pierre (1889). Armed with a bayonet affixed to a pole, Valet impaled the Beast’s chest. On January 12, 1765, the The children’s heroics prompted the court of King Louis XV to send royal hunters to destroy the Beast.

Witnesses described the Beast as an ambush hunter which stalked its prey and seized it by the throat.


All Rights Reserved. Translated by Brockis, Derek The man-eater of Gévaudan: when the serial killer is an animal, by Giovanni Todaro, 2014, Lulu Com, 539 pages, Some have speculated that it was an armored war dog, which explains its strange appearance and why it shrugged off musket shots.

It had an elongated head similar to that of a greyhound, with a flattened snout, pointed ears, and a wide mouth sitting atop a broad chest. Descriptions of the time vary, and reports may have been greatly exaggerated due to public hysteria, but the beast was generally described as a wolf-like canine with a tall, lean frame capable of taking great strides. Hunters followed the animal into the estate’s woods and flushed the animal into the open. There was now a 6,000-Among the most notable tales of bravery was when 19- or 20-year-old Marie-Jeanne Valet was attacked by the Beast on August 11, 1765 while crossing the River Desges with her sister. A young woman, who was tending cattle in the Mercoire forest near Langogne in the eastern part of Gévaudan, saw the beast come at her.

However the bulls in the herd charged the beast keeping it at bay, they then drove it … The wounds found on the bodies were typically to the head and limbs with the remains of 16 victims reportedly decapitated. This combined with descriptions of the hunting and killing methods of the animal, make the lion theory quite plausible.