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In this brief chapter I want to present a case study of one particular monster—La Bête du Gévaudan—in order to demonstrate how these debates, despite assertions to the contrary, proceeded to blur epistemic boundaries between philosophe and theologian, urban and rural, érudit and peasant, centre and margin. In doing so, I want to emphasise the fact that the Enlightenment was not simply a network of correspondence between érudits and savants, nor was it merely the swapping of interesting objects. Rather, this written world was predicated upon the bodily experiences of those at the ‘sharp’ end of phenomena such as La Bête, which were often expressed through song or oral narratives that made reference to alternate modes of understanding, and were often maligned as mere ‘superstition’ or ‘primitivism.’