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The Beast of Gévaudan
The Beast of Gévaudan
Written By Mister Gu on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | 3:01 PM
One day in June 1764, in a forest in the Gévaudan, a mountainous region of south-central France, a young woman tending cows looked up to see a hideous beast bearing down on her. The creature resembled an enormous wolf. Her dogs fled, but the cattle drove the beast off with their horns. The woman would prove considerably more fortunate than most witnesses of what became known as the “Beast of