Violette Nozière was a French woman convicted in 1934 of poisoning her parents, killing her father and seriously injuring her mother, in their Paris apartment in August 1933. The case became one of the most closely followed criminal trials of interwar France.
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Violette Nozière in 1933![The crime scene was on the 6th floor. Police Commissioner Robert Gueudet noted in his report: "The dining room, traces of blood on the bolster, the bed sheet, on the wall, on the floor." [8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Violette_Nozi%C3%A8re_%281915-1966%29_sc%C3%A8ne_de_crime_%281933%29_%28A05%29.jpg/1280px-Violette_Nozi%C3%A8re_%281915-1966%29_sc%C3%A8ne_de_crime_%281933%29_%28A05%29.jpg)
The crime scene was on the 6th floor. Police Commissioner Robert Gueudet noted in his report: "The dining room, traces of blood on the bolster, the bed sheet, on the wall, on the floor." [8]
Germaine Nozière and her lawyer M.Hézard giving evidence in 1934
The writer Marcel Aymé came to the defense of Violette Nozière, saying: “If the incest indeed occurred, what immeasurable pity the poor woman deserved - and what forgiveness!”
Tomb of Violette Nozière in Neuvy-sur-Loire in the Nièvre department.
For André Breton, Violette Nozière became a living legend : she was "mythological to the tips of her nails"![Colette did not believe in the possibility of Violette Nozière's redemption: "I thought of the wicked, criminal child, of the atmosphere of base lies she had created."[26]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Manuel_-_Colette_2.jpg/330px-Manuel_-_Colette_2.jpg)
Colette did not believe in the possibility of Violette Nozière's redemption: "I thought of the wicked, criminal child, of the atmosphere of base lies she had created."[26]About this person
Violette Nozière was a French woman convicted in 1934 of poisoning her parents, killing her father and seriously injuring her mother, in their Paris apartment in August 1933. The case became one of the most closely followed criminal trials of interwar France. Violette, then eighteen, claimed she had acted to free herself from years of sexual abuse by her father, an allegation the prosecution rejected and that has never been independently confirmed. The "Nozière affair" divided public opinion along political lines, drew the support of the Surrealist movement, and remains a recurring subject of French historical and cultural commentary, notably through Claude Chabrol's 1978 film, Violette Nozière.
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