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Welcome to the most notorious podcast I hear of a griveness.

My guest today is Aaron Freundeshoe, a history professor at Queens College in New York.

He is the author of The Certuson in the Jigalow, the murders in the Rue Montagne,

and the dark side of Empire in 19th century Paris. Such a great title. Thank you for being here with me.

Thank you Eric for your invitation. What prompted you to write this book on these murders?

Well, the short answer is I read about them in a newspaper when I was living in Paris,

I used to go and read and write in an old beautiful old 16th century building in the Marais district,

in the fourth-handy small, a public library in the Rue Pave, that was dedicated solely to the

history of Paris itself. This is sort of a reading room with massive old chairs and

creaky wooden floors and Renaissance windows that open out onto a pristine little garden.

Just a jewel of a place. One of its particularities is that you can actually page through

19th century newspapers in their original form, which is really rare. Most libraries that have

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