An indepth investigation into the double crime of the Papin sisters which made headlines in the early 1930s and has fascinated readers ever since Claude Ventura returns to the circumstances of the savage murder of their boss by the Papin sisters which occurred in Le Mans on February 2 1933 This case fascinated JeanPaul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as much as Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan