The young boy and a group of children were out in a meadow with a herd of cattle on January 12, 1765, when the beast attacked. Working together, they managed to scare it off with their pikes.

“It was, in fact, the land of the ever-memorable Beast, the Napoleon Bonaparte of wolves. What a fate it had! It lived ten months in Gévaudan and Vivarais, devouring women, children, and ...

Authorities, fearing a mass hysteria in the population, asked for military assistance. Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, the captain of the local infantry, organized a hunt involving, as he claims, 30,000 men.

The savage 'Beast of Gévaudan' rampaged across the French countryside between 1764 and 1767 and killed as many as a hundred people. The true nature of the attacks and the creature itself remains ...

castles in spain. the divining rod. the wild beast of gevaudan. pygmalion's statue. the home of charles dickens. share full article. june 23, 1867.