Translated by Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity, the legendary crimes and confessions of this grotesque and horrifying 15th Century sadist, child-killer, necrophile, practitioner of the Black Arts and at one time an officer to Joan of Arc…
 
Upon her capture, Lord Gilles de Rais fled to his Estates in France where he began a descent into Hell… He is arrested,  and during the trial confesses to hundreds of horrible crimes - In the year 1440 he is hanged and his body burned.

The second part of the book is translated directly from the trial transcripts by Georges Bataille himself, who was an official Antiquarian Librarian - *Adults Only Please !