The Beast of Gévaudan is the historic name associated with a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan in the Margeride Mountains of south-central France between 1764 and 1767.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

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https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-beast-of-gevaudan-1764-1767

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