The Killer Corset Lady

 

The ghosts of two notorious figures from the 1970s still haunt the streets of the Saint-Pierre district in Old Bordeaux: the erotomaniac artist Pierre Molinier and his friend Cécile, proprietress of the shop *Le Corset qui tue* ("The Corset That Kills"). Behind this provocative name lies a legend: the woman boasted of having killed a man while wearing nothing but a corset. This muse of humble origins vanished in the early 1990s. Who was she? What became of her? Blending legend with fact, Cécile’s life fuels the imagination and—transcending her own era—sheds light on the female experience, both past and present.