15 JANUARY 1983, page 18

The Press

Polysyllabic snobbery Paul Johnson N othing more ill becomes a journalist than intellectual snobbery, and I am sorry to see that the Guardian is going through an acute attack.......

The Beast Of Gevaudan

Euan Cameron B etween 1764 and 1767, as the reign of Louis XV was drawing to its end, the people of the Upper Gevaudan, a remote and hilly district of south-western France, were......