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Author: Michèle Audin
1917)
Yesterday in Le Chesnay (Seine-et-Oise), Roger Goldstein, former student of the École Polytechnique and lieutenant in the 6th Artillery Regiment, killed his father, his mother, his brother, and one of his aunts, who was a nurse at Hospital 209. The family was gathered around their Sunday lunch when the madman fired the mortal gunshots. Alerted by the racket, a female neighbor went to get the police, whom the murderer obeyed without any difficulties.
THE AMERICANS ARRIVE!
(L’Ouest-Éclair, June 30, 1917)
After General Pershing’s arrival in Paris on the 13th, last Tuesday saw the first American soldiers disembark at the port of Saint-Nazaire.
THE MURDERER HAD HIS SENSE KNOCKED OUT OF HIM!
(Le Petit Parisien, July 2, 1917)
We have been informed that Robert Gorenstein (and not Roger Goldstein, as we printed in error), the polytechnician and officer on leave who was arrested last week for the murder of his uncle, his aunt, and his brother (three and not four crimes as was written in haste in a previous article) was a victim of an artillery shell last January. Almost all the men in his battery were killed, and he himself hit his head.
In a horrible development, according to information gathered from neighbors, the three Gorenstein children were orphans and had been raised by their aunt and her husband.
At the time, military doctors considered him recovered, and he was sent back to the front. He is presently undergoing psychiatric exams.
DEATH OF A FLYING ACE
(Le Soir, September 15, 1917)
The aviator Georges Guynemer died on Tuesday in Poelkapelle (Belgium). He achieved more than eighty victories in the “Storks” fighter squadron.
A PLAGUE VANQUISHED
(Le Petit Parisien, October 2, 1917)
Typhoid fever has disappeared from the French front.
COUP D’ÉTAT IN RUSSIA
(L’Humanité, November 9, 1917)
The Maximalists are the rulers of Petrograd. Kerensky has been deposed. The fallen government no longer has the support of the Soviets.
Lenin has won the Soviets’ acclaim. The new government is calling for peace.
BOLSHEVIK NEGOTIATIONS
(Le Matin, December 15, 1917)
The Bolsheviks have started peace negotiations with the Krauts. If they reach an agreement, the liberated German troops will be free to come reinforce our attackers.
DERANGED POLYTECHNICIAN SHUT AWAY
(Le Petit Parisien, January 17, 1918)
The verdict in the Robert Gorenstein affair was announced yesterday. Readers may recall that he was arrested in June after murdering three members of his family. During the trial, the polytechnician,who had injured his head in battle at the Chemin des Dames, declared that he had wanted to eradicate the dead branches of his family. The psychiatrist deemed him irresponsible and as harmless as a little boy, now that he considered his task accomplished.
In view of this expertise, the court pronounced a sentence of life internment in a psychiatric ward.
PIERRE MEYER (interview, December 18, 2006). Marguerite never spoke about Gorenstein to anyone, I believe. Until 1945, when her daughter Bernadette left home. She went to get her notebooks from the bottom of the big wardrobe and gave them to Bernadette, asking her to read and save them. The newspaper clippings about the triple murder and the trial were slipped into the notebooks. She had stopped writing when she got married. She gave them to her daughter and died not long afterwards.
The article on typhoid was also among her papers. It appeared right around the time her sister died of typhus. She was eighteen. Marguerite named her first daughter, Thérèse, after her.
Bernadette was the fourth. Why she was the one Marguerite gave her diary to, I’m not sure I really ever knew.
THE G. CASE: A FIRST REPORT
BY J. MEYERBEER, PSYCHIATRIC DOCTOR, SAINT-MAURICE
(Gazette of the Association of Psychiatric Doctors of France, Vol. 28, 1920)
One may recall the bloody criminal story that the daily newspapers had a field day with in 1917–18, probably after being
Yesterday in Le Chesnay (Seine-et-Oise), Roger Goldstein, former student of the École Polytechnique and lieutenant in the 6th Artillery Regiment, killed his father, his mother, his brother, and one of his aunts, who was a nurse at Hospital 209. The family was gathered around their Sunday lunch when the madman fired the mortal gunshots. Alerted by the racket, a female neighbor went to get the police, whom the murderer obeyed without any difficulties.
THE AMERICANS ARRIVE!
(L’Ouest-Éclair, June 30, 1917)
After General Pershing’s arrival in Paris on the 13th, last Tuesday saw the first American soldiers disembark at the port of Saint-Nazaire.
THE MURDERER HAD HIS SENSE KNOCKED OUT OF HIM!
(Le Petit Parisien, July 2, 1917)
We have been informed that Robert Gorenstein (and not Roger Goldstein, as we printed in error), the polytechnician and officer on leave who was arrested last week for the murder of his uncle, his aunt, and his brother (three and not four crimes as was written in haste in a previous article) was a victim of an artillery shell last January. Almost all the men in his battery were killed, and he himself hit his head.
In a horrible development, according to information gathered from neighbors, the three Gorenstein children were orphans and had been raised by their aunt and her husband.
At the time, military doctors considered him recovered, and he was sent back to the front. He is presently undergoing psychiatric exams.
DEATH OF A FLYING ACE
(Le Soir, September 15, 1917)
The aviator Georges Guynemer died on Tuesday in Poelkapelle (Belgium). He achieved more than eighty victories in the “Storks” fighter squadron.
A PLAGUE VANQUISHED
(Le Petit Parisien, October 2, 1917)
Typhoid fever has disappeared from the French front.
COUP D’ÉTAT IN RUSSIA
(L’Humanité, November 9, 1917)
The Maximalists are the rulers of Petrograd. Kerensky has been deposed. The fallen government no longer has the support of the Soviets.
Lenin has won the Soviets’ acclaim. The new government is calling for peace.
BOLSHEVIK NEGOTIATIONS
(Le Matin, December 15, 1917)
The Bolsheviks have started peace negotiations with the Krauts. If they reach an agreement, the liberated German troops will be free to come reinforce our attackers.
DERANGED POLYTECHNICIAN SHUT AWAY
(Le Petit Parisien, January 17, 1918)
The verdict in the Robert Gorenstein affair was announced yesterday. Readers may recall that he was arrested in June after murdering three members of his family. During the trial, the polytechnician,who had injured his head in battle at the Chemin des Dames, declared that he had wanted to eradicate the dead branches of his family. The psychiatrist deemed him irresponsible and as harmless as a little boy, now that he considered his task accomplished.
In view of this expertise, the court pronounced a sentence of life internment in a psychiatric ward.
PIERRE MEYER (interview, December 18, 2006). Marguerite never spoke about Gorenstein to anyone, I believe. Until 1945, when her daughter Bernadette left home. She went to get her notebooks from the bottom of the big wardrobe and gave them to Bernadette, asking her to read and save them. The newspaper clippings about the triple murder and the trial were slipped into the notebooks. She had stopped writing when she got married. She gave them to her daughter and died not long afterwards.
The article on typhoid was also among her papers. It appeared right around the time her sister died of typhus. She was eighteen. Marguerite named her first daughter, Thérèse, after her.
Bernadette was the fourth. Why she was the one Marguerite gave her diary to, I’m not sure I really ever knew.
THE G. CASE: A FIRST REPORT
BY J. MEYERBEER, PSYCHIATRIC DOCTOR, SAINT-MAURICE
(Gazette of the Association of Psychiatric Doctors of France, Vol. 28, 1920)
One may recall the bloody criminal story that the daily newspapers had a field day with in 1917–18, probably after being
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