Jean Chastel, a farmer and inn-keeper from Gevauden was best know for eating what man-eating gray wolf in the Margeride Mountains?
Beast of Gévaudan The Beast of Gévaudan (French: "La Bête du Gévaudan" ; ] , Occitan: "La Bèstia de Gavaudan" ) is the historical name associated with the man-eating gray wolf, dog or wolfdog which terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (modern-day "département" of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France between 1764 and 1767. The attacks, which covered an area stretching 90 by , were said to have been committed by a beast or beasts that had formidable teeth and immense tails according to contemporary eyewitnesses.
Cave wolf The cave wolf ("Canis lupus spelaeus") is an extinct type of wolf that lived during the Ice Age. It inhabited what is now modern-day western Europe. The Don wolf ("C. l. brevis") from eastern European is regarded as a taxonomic synonym, which indicates that one subspecies once lived across Europe.