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French film "Le pacte des loups" is inspired by this story

Great movie! Known in English as "Brotherhood of the Wolf", but best watched in French with English subtitles, as the English dubbing is terrible.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/

Covered on an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class: https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/beast-of-gevaudan.h...

The drawings of it always made me think of a spotted hyena which a nobleman may have gotten from Africa. Not sure how credible those drawings are though.

Note that this is precisely what is written at the bottom of the 1st drawing:

> Représentation de la bete féroce nomée hiene qui fait un affreux ravage

Translation (my apologizes if it is not that good):

Representation of the ferocious beast named hyena which does an awful rampage

The Beast of Gévaudan