Those who read my posts may have noticed that I raved recently about Christopher Moore's book "Sacré Bleu." In that novel, he utilized his writing and humor skills to examine the outrageous premise that Vincent Van Gogh did not commit suicide, but was murdered. Doing this, he managed to turn it into an entertaining (although somewhat twisted, as is his wont) detective story, with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and other famous painters of the era trying to track down a serial killer who has been plying his trade with the help of a lovely muse for hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of years.
Turns out Chris might have been onto something. The following article extract (translated by Google and *only* an excerpt, because Le Point only puts the first bit of its articles on their website for free) talks about a recent biography by former Pulitzer Prize winners Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith that asserts the very same thing -- that Van Gogh was murdered. The full text of the article in the print version of Le Point goes on to explain a little of their theory, and it involves neither muses nor humor, but it looks as if Chris' intuition when read- ing the last letters of Van Gogh might have been correct. This was not a suicidal man, so something else must have been up. http://tinyurl.com/p6v56lq <http://tinyurl.com/p6v56lq>
