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The book published by Philippe Artières in 2020, Un séminariste assassin. L’Affaire Bladier, 1905 recounts and analyzes a murder that took place on September 1, 1905, in the village of Raulhac: Jean-Marie Bladier, a seventeen-year-old pupil of the minor seminary of Saint-Flour, killed the thirteen-year-old Jean Raulnay with a knife, cutting off his head then raising it toward the sky, before giving himself up to the police. He was examined in Lyon by Doctor Alexandre Lacassagne, who had him write his autobiography and recognized his diminished criminal responsibility. Through a rereading, we return here to four major themes of the historical analysis of the Bladier case: rural history, the history of education, the history of the sacrament of confession, and the symbolism of cephalophoria.