Ending ten years of research, we closed on a sunny sunday our publishing project related to the case of the Beast of Gevaudan, who devoured almost a hundred of people, mainly kids and women, from 1764 to 1767 in the old Gevaudan province in southern France. Hosted for the occasion by our friend Clément, we performed some shooting reenactement, using our replica of a french Fusil de Tulle (.20 Ga caliber smoothbore), which was also a famous fur trade weapon in New France.
Learnings from this shooting session are essentials and allow us to answer key questions about the reported ability of the Beast to withstand firearms shots. We can now close our last chapter of this project, which is to our knowledge the most extensive historical, technical and scientifical investigation about the Devourer, which also led us three times from 2005 to 2015 in old Gévaudan, now mainly known as Margeride mountains.
Our researches opened a brand new investigation field, and show why the two main in force theories - one of a domesticated canine hybrid led by two local criminals, and the other one about a gang of grey wolves whose rampage would have been enlarged and ampliffied by local superstition - are incomplete and wrong.
The project being currently read by several publishers, we hope to be able to present in a near future our conclusions about what still remains today as the most famous hunts in the old kingdom of France.
Our researches opened a brand new investigation field, and show why the two main in force theories - one of a domesticated canine hybrid led by two local criminals, and the other one about a gang of grey wolves whose rampage would have been enlarged and ampliffied by local superstition - are incomplete and wrong.
The project being currently read by several publishers, we hope to be able to present in a near future our conclusions about what still remains today as the most famous hunts in the old kingdom of France.
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