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Using modern biology and background to investigate a series of grisly fatalities in the countryside of 18th-century France. Something unimaginable happened from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For 3 years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mainly women and children, and inflicting severe accidental injuries upon many others. Alarmed rural areas - and their economies - were nearly organised hostage by the marauder, and local officers and Louis XV deployed dragoons and crack wolf hunters from far-off Normandy and the King's own court docket to damage the menace. And with the creature's reign of terror occurring at the advancement of the modern newspaper, it could be said the ferocious episodes in the Gévaudan region were one of the world's first press sensations. Despite extensive historical documentation concerning this awesome predator, no one seemed to know precisely what it was. Theories abounded: Was it an exotic animal, like a hyena, that acquired escaped from a menagerie? A werewolf? A wolf-dog crossbreed? A new types? Some kind of conspiracy? Or, as was proposed by the local bishop, was it a scourge of God? Even today, debates on the true dynamics of La Bête, "The Beast," continue. Beast requires a fascinating take a look at all the data, using a mix of background and modern biology to improve a theory which could solve one of the most bizarre and unexplained eliminating sprees of all time: France's infamous Beast of the Gévaudan.
