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The dramatic and blood curdling accounts of Histoire were incorporated as a primary source into many other volumes, notably Joseph Hansen's Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolung im Mittelalter ("Sources and investigations regarding the history of obsessive belief in witches and witch hunts in the middle ages"), which in turn became the source for many other works. Ultimately, Lamonthe-Langan's work became the sole or principle primary source for a substantial part of twentieth century popular and historical beliefs about the Inquisition, witchcraft, torture and jurisprudence in the mediaeval period.
In the early 1970s, two historians (Norman Cohn, Richard Kieckhefer) independently discovered that the Histoire was a fabrication; Lamonthe-Langan's archive did not exist, he did not have the paleographic skills to read books of that age anyway, several major events he described could not have occurred, and his book was full of anachronismAn anachronism (from Greek ana back, and chronos time) is an artifact that belongs to another time, a person who seems to be displaced in time (i. who belongs to another age) or something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred. One os.
Prior to fabricating the Histoire, Lamonthe-Langan had been an authorThe word author has several meanings: # The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is of gothic horror novelA novel is a long or extended work of fiction written in prose, usually in the form of a story. It is longer and more complex than a short story or novella (ie. 40,000+ words), and it is not bound by the restrictions of plays and poetry. The word "novel"s. Subsequently, he went on to forge several autobiographiesFor the album by Ashlee Simpson, see Autobiography (album In a sense, autobiography is a form of biography, the writing of a life story. The difference, of course, is point of view: an autobiography is from the viewpoint of its subject. Biographers genera of French historicalGaul For details, see the main Gaul article. Settled mainly by the Gauls and related Celtic peoples (apart from a shrinking area of Basque population in the south-west and Ligurian population on the southern coast), the area of modern France comprised the figures.