Moriceau, Jean-Marc, 15, 43, 97, 104, 200, 247, 264
Morvan, France, 120
N
National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, 91, 101, 175, 181, 183, 185, 203
National Office for Hunting and Wildlife, France, 262
Navajo, 124
Nazi soldiers, 9, 10
Neanderthal, 123, 212
New York Times, 114
Normandy, France, 10, 51, 58, 61, 115, 123, 126
Nowak, Ronald M., 197
nux vomica, 34
O
O’Donnell, Elliott, 116, 120, 128
Ollier, Jean-Baptiste, 78, 83, 100
Orleanais, 249, 251
Orléans, 71
Otten, Charlotte F., 115, 118, 137
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 185, 186–87
Oulion, Roger, 97
P
Pailleyre (Bégou), 130, 143
Panafleu, Joseph, 40–42
panther, 169, 170, 190
Paole or Paul, Arnold, 43, 116
Papoux, Joas de, 52
Paris, France, 35, 36, 91, 125, 181, 182, 183, 205, 206, 237, 238–40, 242, 243, 246, 263
Paris Gazette, 64
Paschal, Madeleine, 82, 108
Patterson, J. H., 173–74
Paulhac, France, 69, 83, 85
Pawnee, 137
petechiae, 107
Philip of Macedon, 128
Pic, Jean, 39
Pic, Xavier, 144
pilgrimages, 85, 101
Pleistocene, 171, 177, 179, 180, 188, 246–47
Pocock, R. I., 168
poison, 34, 52, 53, 163, 224, 233, 244, 245
Poligny, France, 117
Pompadour, Madame de, 7
Pontajou, France, 143
porphyria, 73, 151
Portefaix, 39–42, 58, 64
Pourcher, Abbé Pierre, 9 and passim
Pourcher, Jean-Pierre, 30, 80
Pourrat, Henry, 96
Pradelles, France, 28
Pradels, France, 27
prehistoric contenders for the Beast, 159–60, 188
primates, 162
Prunières, France, 29, 49
Puech, Paul, 96, 156
R
rabies, 5, 231, 232
Regueiro, Spain, 145
Rhone, France, 256
Rieutort, Jean, 29
Rieutort-de-Randon, France, 37
Rinchard, 71, 74
Robb, Graham, 123, 132
Roche, Gérard, 98
Rocles, France, 27
Rodier clan, 102
Romasanta, Manuel Blanco, 145–49
Roussel, Pierre, 68
Rousset, Marie-Jeanne, 49
Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, 19, 67
S
Sade, Marquis de, 95, 97, 157
Saint-Alban, France, 19, 20, 28, 33, 34, 52, 55, 62, 97
Saint Augustine, 38, 99, 115
Saint-Bonnot, France, 151, 152
Saint-Chély-d’Apcher, France, 28, 32, 154
Saint Christopher, 137
Sainte-Lucie, France, 260
Saint-Florentin, Louis Phélypeaux, comte de, 32, 33
Saint-Flour, France, 53
Saint-Flour-de-Mercoire, France, 22
Saint John Chrysostom, 138
Saint-Julien des Chazes, 201, 202
Saint Louis (Louis IX), 71
Saint-Priest, Marie-Joseph de Guignard de, 14–15, 29, 51, 61, 78, 251
Saint-Privat d’Allier, France, 260
Saint Severian, 99
Sand, George, 113, 118, 119–24
Sapolsky, Robert M., 102
Satyricon, 114
Saugues, France, 67, 85, 154, 183, 184, 223, 260
“Scratching Fanny,” 132
Serial killers, 135, 145–57
Servières, France, 143
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 194, 195, 198, 240
Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War), 15, 19, 31, 98, 102, 222
silver, 128
Skidi, 137
skinwalkers, 124
Smith, Jay M., 32, 75, 106, 172, 184
snow canid, 160
Sogne d’Auvers, 87, 101, 203
South Dakota, 194, 195, 196
Spotte, Stephen, 216
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 8, 10, 106, 113, 138, 259
Stoker, Bram, 125
Stubbe Peter, 43, 116
Summers, Montague, 117, 118, 130, 132
T
Ténazeyre, 85–88
Teyssèdre, Jean and Pierre, 79
Thiaucourt, France, 117
Thompson, Richard, 96, 99, 130, 132, 185, 199, 200
tigers, 164–66
tiger cat, 53, 163–64, 166
Topsell, Edward, 138
Tourneyre, Vidal, 76
trained animal, 96, 102, 120, 155, 157, 162, 163, 183
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 10
Trocelier, 31, 48, 108
Trois Frères cave, 139, 140
Truyère river, 21, 49
Tsavo, Kenya, lions, 171, 173, 228
U
Urban V, pope, 16
US Biological Survey, 124, 131, 193
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), 212, 213
US Fish and Wildlife Service, 193, 196
V
Valet, Marie-Jeanne, 69–70, 260
Valet, Thérèse, 69
Vally, Catherine, 36
vampire, 43, 116
Vedrines Saint-Loup, France, 37
Velasquez-Manoff, Moises, 114
Velay, France, 32
Vendée, 115, 128
Venteugues, France, 67, 143
Versailles, France, 6, 27, 49, 59, 74, 75, 78, 79, 89, 97, 183, 184, 185, 194, 202
Veyrier, Jean, 40–42
victims, 104, passim
Villeret, France, 39, 42
Vivarais, France, 6, 11, 14, 28, 32, 45, 154
Vosges, France, 200
Vosges Bête, 253
W
Wall Street Journal, 102
Walpole, Horace, 75, 78, 132, 204
warlock, 117, 130, 132, 139
War of the Austrian Succession, 19
war-wolves, 130
Way of Saint James, 21
werewolves (loups-garous), 5, 43, 95, 113–33, 146, 150, 151, 239
Westchester County, New York, 198–99
wild man, 137–39
Willems, Robert, 212, 213, 214
William and Mary, 200
wolf leaders, lords, masters, 102, 117, 118–20, 125, 138, 260
Wolf Park, Indiana, 222
wolverine, 190, 254
wolves, 191–97, 221–35
wolves in France today, 260–64
Wyoming, 194, 196, 197
Y
Young, Stanley P., 124, 193, 194, 195, 196
Maps of France and the Gévaudan. Cartography by David Lindroth Inc.
The landscape of the Beast. Photo Schwalb.
“Depiction of the ferocious Beast believed to be a hyena.” A woman is attacked by the Beast. “The king, being informed of the havoc, sent Captain Duhamel and his dragoons, and offered a reward.” Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Depiction of the international commercial fair in Beaucaire, France, by Paul André Basset (1750–1785). Could a hyena have escaped from a menagerie here? Bibliothèque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France/Bridgeman Images.
King Louis XV Hunting in the Forest of Saint-Germain, painted by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755). The king, an avid hunter, was known to bag 200 or more game animals on a shoot. Artist Oudry is seen in the lower right-hand corner. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France/Bridgeman Images.
The Beast eluded its pursuers more than once in the woods on the grounds of Château de la Baume. Photo Ancalagon (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]
Interior, cathedral of Mende, France, from which Gabriel Florent de Choiseul Beaupré, the bishop of Mende, declared th
e Beast a “scourge of God.” Photo Schwalb.
The femme Jouve attempts to save her son. Patrick Aventurier/Gamma-Rapho Collection/Getty Images.
Close-up of the sculpture in Auvers, France, depicting the battle between Marie-Jeanne Valet and the Beast on August 11, 1765. Photo Schwalb.
The ancient Chapel of St. Mary of Chazes, sited above the river Allier. Photo Schwalb.
The “Chazes Wolf” is presented to King Louis XV (at left) and his court in Versailles on October 1, 1765. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Foreboding Mont Mouchet, France, nearly 5,000 feet high. Antoine Chastel was said to have lived here among wolves. It is also the vicinity of the site where his father Jean Chastel destroyed the second Beast in June 1767. Photo Schwalb.
One can view the monument honoring Jean Chastel for killing the Beast of the Gévaudan along the D30 roadway in La Besseyre-Saint-Mary, France. Photo Schwalb.
A menacing loup-garou or meneur de loups, dressed in wolf skin, accompanied by an attack dog in protective covering, advances toward a lone shepherdess. This sculpture group, in the town of Le Malzieu, depicts one of the hypotheses regarding the Beast’s identity. Photo Schwalb.
Children defend themselves from the Beast. Sculpture group in Le Malzieu, France. Photo Schwalb.
An abstract sculpture of the Beast menaces Marvejols, France. Photo Schwalb.
Silver Bête medallions dot the streets throughout Saugues, France. Photo Schwalb.
A giant wooden sculpture of La Bête overlooks the town of Saugues, France. Photo Schwalb.
Stonehenge-like megalith or menhir in Cham des Bondons in the Cévennes, south of Mende, France. Photo Schwalb.
Skin of a Canis specimen identified as a hybrid bred and raised in captivity, acquired by the American Museum of Natural History in 1936. Photo Schwalb. American Museum of Natural History.
Skull and jaws of an Indian man-eating tiger (Panthera tigris) dating from 1933. Note the worn canines (arrows) and broken/healed jaw (box). Manabu Sakamoto, Bristol Museums, Galleries, & Archives, Bristol, UK.
Another skull of a man-eating tiger (top). Note the round and reduced canines (bottom right) in comparison to a normal specimen (bottom left) also showing considerable use (chipped and rounded tips). Paolo Viscardi, Horniman Museum & Gardens, London, UK.
A mounted striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena). Hall of evolution, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. Photo G. Sánchez Romero.
An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). Hall of evolution, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. Photo G. Sánchez Romero.
A medieval hunting scene, entitled “Hunting a Wild Cat,” depicting a nobleman spearing a spotted big cat (probably a leopard). From Le livre de la chasse (The Book of the Hunt) by Gaston Phoebus (1331–1391). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The Chaingy Beast, Museum of Orléans, France. Total length (without tail): 117 cm. Shoulder height: 60 cm. Height at top of the head: 69 cm. Photo and measurements by Michel Binon.
Eischoll Wolf: (VS) HN 128. Also known as the “Valais Monster.” Museum entry date: November 11, 1947. Collector: Wildlife, Game, and Fish Service, 1951 Sion. Prepared by: Geneva Museum. Copyright: Musées cantonaux, Sion; Heinz Preisig, Sion.
Reckingen Wolf: HN 98-52. An Italian wolf shot in the Conches Valley (Haut-Valais), Switzerland. Museum entry date: November 23, 1999. Collector: Wildlife, Game, and Fish Service, 1951 Sion. Prepared by: Périsset Aloïs, La Léchaire 23, 1618 Châtel-St-Denis. Copyright: Musées cantonaux, Sion, Heinz Preisig, Sion.
Fresh track (white circle), measuring approximately 10 cm x 10 cm, from the Rhone, France, big cat identified as a black jaguar (Panthera onca). October 2009. Photo Le Républicain Lorrain, France.
Unusual large tracks photographed near Chullo Peak, Sierra Nevada (Almería, Andalucía, southern Spain), probably belonging to a big cat or large carnivore. April 2012. Photo Manuel Limón.
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