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By accepting his own crimes, highlighting their range and incomprehensibility for a regular human being, [Gilles] achieved the result of remaining great and inaccessible even in his final demise. Accusers and creditors wouldn’t lower him to their level. He had chosen, and forever, the role of the man for whom there couldn’t be measure, for whom the common judgment criteria could not apply.
Ernesto Ferrero, Bluebeard: Gilles de Rais and the decline of the Middle Ages [terrible translation done by me once again]
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