User talk:NicoG2

Sweeney Todd
My reading of the relevant passage from the French Wiki article I would render (rather loosely, and through my own very rudimentary French) as follows:


 * ''A somewhat similar French story is called the "rue des Marmousets affair". In 1387, in the île de la Cité of Paris, at the corner of the Rue des Marmousets and the Rue des Deux-Hermites, a barber, and his neighbour, a pastry cook, were arrested for the attempted murder of a squire from Touraine. On his arrival in Paris, the young man wanted to have a shave before meeting his family, and narrowly avoided getting his throat cut by the barber. This brought to light a gruesome traffic : the barber was in the habit of cutting the throats of his casual customers, thus supplying his neighbour with ingredients for his pies, which had been famous throughout the city. The two criminals were burned alive outside their own houses.


 * This story is related by the author Jacques Yonnet in his book Rue des maléfices (Denoël, 1954)

If this could be proved to be authentic, then it would plainly be the source of the original urban legend on which the London Sweeney is based. Otherwise it is equally plainly just another version, in this case translated to Medieval Paris, and dating (on the face of it) from 1954.

--Soundofmusicals (talk) 01:49, 16 December 2014 (UTC)