Little Demon In The City Of Light: A True Story Of Murder And Mesmerism In Belle Epoque Paris - Plot & Excerpts
cried Le Petit Journal, “and this time it’s definitive.” At long last the body had surrendered its secret. Goron was triumphant, returning to Paris on November 15 aboard the express train from Lyon, in a shower of press accolades. “We were given to see yesterday the face of a happy man,” L’Écho de Paris reported. “We speak of M. Goron, who arrived, face glowing in the company of principal inspector Jaume, no less radiant than his chief.” His reputation salvaged, Goron was now, in the words of Le Figaro, “the very skilled chief of the Sûreté.” Newspapers displayed photos of Gouffé’s gruesome remains next to images of the man himself in full life, and reporters held back nothing in their revolting descriptions of the autopsy. The reading public was appalled and delighted, swarming newsboys on the streets. The editions rapidly sold out. Finally Goron had a body—and proof that Gouffé had been murdered. The bailiff’s brother-in-law, Louis-Marie Landry, acknowledged his mistake at the Lyon morgue, telling L’Écho de Paris he was resigned to Gouffé’s death: “Yes, there cannot be any more doubt, it’s him.”
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