45 - Madame de Brinvilliers

Called “one of the most famous poisoners and murderers of all time” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Marquise de Brinvilliers over a ten year period murdered her father and two brothers, as well as attempting a few other murders. The case also had an unintended aftermath...

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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.

Closing music by Soma.

SOURCES

“Brinvilliers, Marie Madeleine Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de.” Encyclopædia Britannica (1911). https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Brinvilliers,_Marie_Madeleine_Marguerite_d%27Aubray,_Marquise_de

Dumas, Alexander. “The Marquise de Brinvilliers” in Celebrated Crimes, vol. 8. New York: P.F. Collier, 1910.

Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: National Illustrated Library, 1852.

Somerset, Anne. The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism in the Court of King Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Stokes, Hugh. Madame de Brinvilliers and Her Times, 1630-1676. New York: John Lane Company, 1912.

Summers, Montague. Witchcraft and Black Magic. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2012 (reprint of 1946 ed.)

https://www.thehairpin.com/2014/07/the-big-book-of-female-killers-chapter-2-the-marquise-de-brinvilliers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobelins_Manufactory