Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers
In the sun-scorched court of Louis XIV, one woman turned murder into art. The Marquise de Brinvilliers wasn't content with mere adultery or gambling debts. She wanted inheritance, and she wanted it now. Armed with arsenic pilfered from her lover's pharmacy, she systematically poisoned her father, her brothers, and her sister, all in cold blood, for the pleasure of watching them wither. When her confessions came spilling out under interrogation, she unraveled a web of aristocratic depravity that would shock even the most cynical chronicler of the Sun King's court. Her trial ignited the legendary Affair of the Poisons, dragging nobles, alchemists, and a certain mysterious prisoner in the Bastille into the spotlight. Dumas, never one to let history's drama go to waste, transforms this real-life tale of aristocratic poisonings into a Gothic fever dream of greed, lust, and the particular cruelty of the ancien régime. This is true crime before the genre had a name: visceral, unsparing, and utterly intoxicating.
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