![]() ![]() In this condition, he was sent to an asylum far away from Louise. ![]() Vacher’s face was so disfigured that when he spoke it contorted into a disturbing grimace. When she refused, he pulled out a gun, shot her, and turned the gun on himself.īecause the person who sold Vacher the gun had loaded it with half charges, neither died from the bullet wounds, but the faces of both were disfigured. But Vacher soon showed up there and asked her once again to be his bride. Finally, she fled to the safety of another town. She told him that her mother forbade a relationship between them, but he persisted. In the following weeks, she tried to avoid him but to no avail. He added that if she ever betrayed him, he’d kill her. After he asked about the weather, they went to a café, where, much to Louise’s surprise, Vacher proposed marriage. One day, in 1893, while taking a walk, nineteen-year-old Louise Barant met a slightly older man named Joseph Vacher (pronounced Vashay). ![]()
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