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Christine Papin (8 March 1905 – 18 May 1937) and Léa Papin (15 September 1911 – 24 July 2001) were two French sisters who, as live-in maids, were convicted of murdering their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans on February 2, 1933.
- Life Inside The Lancelin House
- The Gruesome Murders of Madame Léonie and Genevieve
- A Sordid Trial and The Intellectuals Who Come to The Papin Sisters Defense
Christine and Lea Papin worked as domestic servants for a retired lawyer, René Lancelin, his wife, Léonie, and their grown daughter, Geneviève. The Lancelins lived in a beautiful two-story townhouse on No. 6 rue Bruyère in the city of Le Mans. By outside accounts, the family treated them well. They ate the same food as the family, lived in a heated...
On the day of the murders, it was dark and raining heavily. After a shopping trip, the mother and daughter were to go directly to the home of Léonie’s brother, where René would meet them. The family were not expected home by the sisters until late in the evening. The two siblings continued with their errands, one of which was to pick up the iron fr...
The gruesome case of the Papin sisters attracted the interest of the intellectuals of the time as they argued that the murders were the manifestation of the class struggle. They believed that the girls rebelled against their mean-spirited masters, reflected in the poor conditions under which the people who worked as servants to the rich lived. Prom...
Jun 23, 2017 · The home of the Lancelin family in Le Mans, France, became the scene of a savage double-murder by the quiet housemaid duo, the Papin sisters.
Aug 10, 2018 · Two sisters, by the names of Christine and Léa Papin, carried out a gruesome murder on the eve of February 2, 1933. On that cold winter day, the siblings killed a mother and daughter. The victims were unrecognizable: defaced, with their eyes ripped from the sockets, their bodies horrifically mutilated.
May 12, 2017 · The Papin sisters and the murders for which they were responsible have left a bloody mark in the annals of French criminology. It also caught the attention of a significant number of French intellectuals who wrote different analyses of the case or adapted the unfortunate event for theater and film. Christine and Léa Papin spent their youth in ...
Christine Papin (8 March 1905 - 18 May 1937) and Léa Papin (15 September 1911 - 2001) were two French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933.
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Apr 20, 2020 · On February 2, 1933, Christine and Léa Papin committed a gruesome crime against their employers. Were they motivated by madness, blood lust, or class warfare? Nearly a century later, their grisly crime remains as mystifying as ever.
