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'They looked like such good girls': the mystery of Genet's murderous Maids by Lyn Gardner

Unwomanly monsters, revolutionaries or worms who turned? As Jean Genet's classic play is revived in London, the macabre story of the Papin sisters, who killed their employer's wife and daughter, still has the power to perplex There is a famous photograph of Christine and Léa Papin, taken before they committed the double murder on 2 February 1933 that made these unassuming housemaids two of the most infamous women of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:52AM on February 24, 2016

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