Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, crime was a constant in Corrèze. Clearly, violence never truly left the forefront of this department, which for a very long time remained a rural area in central France. Jean-Michel Valade demonstrates this through his research. He has unearthed from the archives a grim and well-stocked museum of horrors, where the depravities of the human soul appear in all their darkness. Assassinations, murders, parricides, poisonings, infanticides, rapes, indecent assaults, incest, as well as arson and sordid robberies, pepper his narrative. Published in 2008, then reissued in 2012, this work, which reads "like a very good novel of thirty-five chapters," as Claude Michelet writes in his preface, is brought back to life by Éditions Douro.