Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers
- Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630 – July 17, 1676) was a French serial killer.
Crimes
De Brinvilliers poisoned her father, brother, and two sisters in order to inherit their property, with the help of her lover, army captain Godin de Sainte-Croix. There were also rumours that she had poisoned poor people during her visits to hospitals.
The poison she used appears to have been the Tofana poison, an art which one of her lovers taught her. She was acquainted with Exili, another poisoner of the seventeenth century.dubious
She fled but was arrested in Liège.
Execution
She was forced to confess, and sentenced to death. On July 17, 1676, she was forced to drink 16 pints of water, and then was beheaded and burned at the stake.
The trial of the Marquise de Brinvilliers led to the Poison affair.
Fictional portrayals
Her case was portrayed fictionally by Arthur Conan Doyle in " [http://www.mastertexts.com/index.php?PageName=ChapterDetails&TitleID=613&VolumeNo=0&ChapterNo=2 The Leather Funnel] ", by Alexandre Dumas, père in " [http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG1175/_INDEX.HTM The Marquise de Brinvilliers] ", and by Émile Gaboriau in " [http://books.google.com/books?id=_BoCAAAAQAAJ Intrigues of a Poisoner] ". Robert Browning's 1846 poem "The Laboratory" imagines an incident in the life of Marie Madeleine Marguerite d'Aubray Brinvilliers.In the novel The Burning Court by John Dickson Carr, the plot concerns a murder that seems to have been committed by the ghost of Marie d'Aubray Brinvilliers.
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