![]() ![]() Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Michel Foucault, author of "Madness and Civilization" and "Discipline and Punish," collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. ![]() Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. ![]() On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. "To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is like new. Translation by Frank Jellinik of "Moi, Pierre Riviere, ayant egorge ma mere, ma soeur et mon frere." (Gallimard, 1973). ![]()
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