Bluebeard was a real guy and his castle is still standing in the Vendée

so the fairy tale Barbe-Bleue, the one where the wife finds the room full of dead wives. Charles Perrault wrote it 1697. the man it's based on is almost certainly Gilles de Rais. and this is the part that messes people up: he was a war hero. fought next to Jeanne d'Arc, Marshal of France, mega rich.……