DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCE Intro. by R.A.Gilbert

xxv+305pp. Fine hardback in dustcover An examination of a most sensational hoax perpetrated by Parisian journalist Leo Taxil in the late 1800s. It was a satirical and somewhat farcical interpretation of this sensationalisation and persecution of occult groups in France at that time. Now, published for the first time, this sequel re-examines and re-presents the telling of the hoax in a straightforward manner, without the satire and farce