By Pierre. Michel Foucault (ed) Riviere
To loose his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivi?re determined to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went within his small Normandy condo with a pruning hook and lower to loss of life his mom, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in penitentiary, he wrote a memoir to justify the entire grotesque tale.Michel Foucault, writer of insanity and Civilization and self-discipline and Punish, gathered the correct records of the case, together with scientific and criminal testimony, police files. and Rivi?re's memoir. The Rivi?re case, he issues out, happened at a time whilst many professions have been contending for prestige and tool. scientific authority used to be hard legislations, branches of presidency have been vying. Foucault's reconstruction of the case is a superb exploration of the roots of our modern perspectives of insanity, justice, and crime.
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I asked him. I am going to sce the devil, he answered; he burst out laughing loudly and went on toward a spinney owned by his father. JO PIERRE RIVIERE . . Two years ago, I was keeping the Riviere house during his parents' absence; his brother Prosper had asked me to take great care of a jay to which he was much anached. I told Pierre to ~ive him something to eat, which he did in my presence; the Jay seemed to me to be quite well, at five o'clock next morning I found it dead in its cage. ng i:.
It seems rhar Riviere had often behaved in the same way toward other women, of whom he had seemed very much frightened. The accused, to my knowledge, has always loved solitude, he often retired into places where he could not be seen and only answered after he had been called many cimes. One evening, his father looked for him for a long time, not knowing what had become of him; he found him at last in his loft. I must point out that the father, very patient and very mild by nature, never beat him.
Q. You arc trying to deceive the law on this point, for you were seen in the village of FIers with a book in your hand. A. It may perhaps have been an old almanac, the onc I described to you. I also had some sheets of paper. Q. What were you going to do with the so-called bow and PIERRE RIVIERE . . A. Q. A. Q. so-called arrow you were carrymg when you were arrested? I was going to try to kill birds with it. And what were you going to do with the sulphur you had on you? Use it for lighting fires in the woods.