1869, Ep. 178 with Susannah Wilson, author of A Most Quiet Murder

Learn more about A Most Quiet Murder by Susannah Wilson: Transcript: Susannah Wilson is a Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick. She focuses on French cultural history from the fin de siècle to the mid-twentieth century, with an emphasis on women's lives, pathology, criminality, and drug cultures. Wilson is the author of Voices from the Asylum. We spoke to Susannah about her new book on a famous case involving the death of a five-year-old girl in late nineteenth-century France and the mystery that Susannah unfolds in her examination of the case judicial investigations, the psychiatric medical evaluations, and ultimately the murder trial for the primary suspect Marie-Françoise Fiquet.

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This episode is 00:25:46 long.

This episode was published on Feb 5, 2026.

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