424: The Beast of Gévaudan (with Gigi Griffis)

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Animal attacks on the French peasantry, a mysterious beast, and a years long hunt. We’re joined by author Gigi Griffis as we discuss The Beast of Gévaudan, her book We Are The Beasts, and re-writing monsters as saviors.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, child death, animal attacks, animal death, misogyny, war, natural disasters, and blood.

Guest

Gigi Griffis is the author of We Are The Beasts, The Wicked Unseen, And The Trees Stare Back, The Lioness, and The Empress (as seen on Netflix), among other things. She is a sucker for little-known histories, unlikable female characters, and all things Europe.

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1:27.9	Thank you. podcast.com'm Amanda. And I'm'm Julia and we are joined this week by the wonderful
1:34.1	Gigi Griffiths. Gigi, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell our audience a little bit
1:40.2	about who you are and what you do? Yeah, thank you so much for having me. So my name is Gigi
1:45.4	Griffith. And I am an author of a variety of books set in the past. So you could call that
1:51.5	historical fiction. However, some of them are set in the very near past. And so I have books set in
1:57.0	even the 90s and the 80s, as well as my most recent book, which is called We Are the Beasts,
2:03.0	which is set in early modern France during a real unsolved historical mystery known as
2:08.9	the Beast of Jevadon, which is, I think, what we're going to talk about today.
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