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The Marquise of Poison: Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers and the Crime That Terrified Paris

The Marquise of Poison: Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers and the Crime That Terrified Paris

Sanchez, Alana

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryTrue Crime

ISBN13: 9798250561044
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Paris. The late reign of Louis XIV. A death that should have been ordinary.

On 31 July 1672, a man is found dead in his Paris rooms-and an inventory opens a locked cassette that should never have been opened. Inside: diverse vials and nine letters linked to Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers. In the official account, those letters point to an unthinkable claim: that a noblewoman poisoned her own father (1666) and two brothers (1670). And the vials? Virulent poisons said to leave little trace-perfect for a world where illness already looked like death.

What begins as a private scandal becomes a matter of state, tangled with money, influence, and ministerial rivalry. Brinvilliers runs. Paris hunts. And when the machinery of justice finally closes around her, truth is produced through procedure-confession, coercion, and spectacle.

The Marquise of Poison is true crime and history: it follows the paper trail, keeps the legal process visible, and separates what can be shown from what is merely said-refusing the easy, sensational version of a case that terrified a city.

Content note: murder, coercion, judicial violence, and execution.

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