195. The Raven of Tulle | France

Between 1917 and 1922, the residents of a small French town were terrorised by an anonymous letter writer, who exposed secrets and made allegations. Each letter was signed: ‘The Eye of the Tiger’. The rumour mill was churning at a diabolical rate – careers ended, marriages became strained and eventually two people lost their lives. Investigators took five years to unmask the author, a local secretary by the name of Angèle Laval. This poison pen letter case became known as the Raven of Tulle Affair.

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Resources

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Hondelatte Raconte: Angèle Laval, le corbeau

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Wikipedia

Crimereads – Poison Pen Letter

Articles

The Raven on the Correze

The Raven: Is this film inspired by a true story?

The dark story of the Raven of Tulle

The sinister case of the Raven of Tulle

The Angèle Laval affair, the avenging lover who became the first Raven in France

The Raven of Tulle – A criminal case still inscribed in the memory

The Tulle Affair: Birth of a paper monster

100 years ago the anonymous letters of Angèle Laval… raged in Tulle

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Narrated by Noel Vinson

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