The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 - Paperbackby Alain Corbin (Author), Arthur Goldhammer (Translator) In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignation of the entire country. A young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive. Rumors of cannibalism stirred public fascination, and the details of the