Brotherhood of the Wolf, Preface, Chapter 1, Click2Flicks

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF</i></p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="90%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="brotherhood_wolf_ch2.htm">2. THE BEAST OF GEVAUDAN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="brotherhood_wolf_ch3.htm">3. <i>La BETE</i></a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="brotherhood_wolf_ch4.htm">4. TEMPORARY REPRIEVE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="brotherhood_wolf_ch5.htm">5. DEATH TO <i>La BETE</i></a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="brotherhood_wolf_ch6.htm">6. LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">A plague sent by God<br> to punish the sins of men.</i><br><br> Gabriel Florent, Bishop of Mende<br> Commenting on<br> The <i>"Beast of Gevaudan"</i><br> 1763</b></i></font></p><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">It was the 18th century. <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/monarchy/louis15.armour.jpeg" target="_blank"><b>Louis XV</b></a> was king of France. He, and his European counterparts, were <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/maps/map.1763.jpeg" target="_blank"><b>building</b></a> empires even as <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/maps/map.france.couleur.jpeg" target="_blank"><b>his subjects</b></a> were mere decades from <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu/homes/jack/eighteenth/bastille.prise.jpeg" target="_blank"><b>Revolution</b></a>.</p> <p>During 1763, a fierce marauding animal roamed the <a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/fsl161/auvergne.jpg" target="_blank"><b>fields</b></a> and <a href="http://lasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr/Personnel/Philippe.Martinet/JAA/auvergne.html" target="_blank"><b>valleys</b></a> of <a href="http://www.pariserve.tm.fr/hotel-france/cartes-regions/auvergne.gif" target="_blank"><b>Auvergne</b></a> and South Dordogne, killing at will. The terror lasted three years.</p> <p>By the time she was caught, on 19 June 1767, the animal had killed around 100 people in <a href="http://mysteresparalleles.free.fr/gevaudan2.jpg" target="_blank"><b>several</b></a> different villages. She was <i>La Bete du Gevaudan</i> ("The Beast of Gevaudan"). She remains known in France as <a href="http://www.lozere-gite.com/Images/LaBete.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>La Bete</i></b></a> (the Beast).</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="brotherhood_wolf_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></a></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>