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The question isn't answered, except for one sentence that says illustrators had a field day depicting a large beast.

Also, nowhere is it said people believed the beast to be a werewolf.

A reminder that headlines that start with an interrogative pronoun usually have little substance.

French here, never heard of any connection with werewolves. Only that it was either an immense wolf or possibly a hyena brought who-knows-how from Africa.

Note from a dive in the rabbit hole of the French Wikipedia page: it seems it was truly a wolf which was - according to its autopsy - 1m long "from the base of its tail to the top of its head" and weighed more than 50kg.

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