Wolves of Paris
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The Wolves of Paris were a man-eating wolf pack that entered Paris during the winter of 1450 through breaches in the city walls, killing forty people. A wolf named Courtaud, or "Bobtail", was the leader of the pack. Eventually the wolves were killed when Parisians, furious at the deaths, lured Courtaud and his pack into the heart of the city, where they were stoned and speared to death before the gates of Notre Dame Cathedral.
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- Thompson, Richard H. Wolf-Hunting in France in the Reign of Louis XV: The Beast of the Gévaudan. Lewistown: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
- Pfeiffer, Thomas. Le Brûleur de loups. Lyon, Bellier, 2004.
- Daniel P. Mannix. The Wolves of Paris
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