Being the History of Gilles de Retz of Brittany, France, who was Executed at Nantes in 1440 AD and who was the Original of Blue-Beard in the Tales of Mother Goose. First published in 1899, with five illustrations in black and white. The author, Thomas Wilson, was Curator of the Division of Prehistoric Archaeology at the US National Museum, Counsellor of the Bar of the Supreme Courts, Court of Claims and of Appeals in the District of Columbia, and formerly US Consul at Ghent, Belgium, and at Nantes and Nice, France.