Marquise de Brinvilliers, Holy Poisoner, poison, crime, victim, criminal, Louis XIV, French nobility, 17th century, poisoning, arsenic, Sainte Croix
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Explore the life and crimes of the Marquise de Brinvilliers, a 17th-century French noblewoman known as 'The Holy Poisoner', and examine the extent to which she was both a victim and a perpetrator.
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[...] The poison under Louis XIV A. Poison, de quoi parle-t-on ? The Centre National of Ressources Textuelles and Lexical, we gave the definition next of poison : « All substances that can, upon introduction into the body and depending on the dose, mode of penetration, and the state of the subject, disrupt certain vital functions, seriously harm some structures organic or of inducing the death12 ». A poison is therefore a product that once in contact with a living organism will have negative interactions more or less serious depending on its dosage, the nature of the product or its mode of introduction, which can all until death. [...]
[...] It's--say the poison viewed as a means lethal. However it is interesting of to do a aparté and to emphasize the fait that this here can être qualified of poison, in the medical and pharmaceutical field does not participate in being deleterious to the individual, but rather au contrary to attempt to improve their quality of life like in atteste a article published on the American Museum Of Natural History website titled Poisson of medicine17. The poison from a lethal point of view and that of a medical point of view, have however given birth au 18th century to the expression « bouillon of eleven hours » in reference to given broth in the hospices at the people sick people afin of their redonner of the forces but here despite this, they will die a few hours after ingestion18. [...]
[...] (s. d.). enapagen2.bibenligne.fr. https://enapagen2.bibenligne.fr/node/content/nid/201516 Metdepenningen, P. M. (2015, August 19). Love poisoned of the Brinvilliers. The Evening. https://www.lesoir.be/art/965769/article/actualite/belgique/2015-08-19/l-amour-empoisonne-brinvilliers Poison Affair. (2021). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1. [...]
[...] And have there been others? We should note, however, that animal testing was banned not only not that the Marquise feels of the compassion à their égard but parce that their anatomy differs from that of humans and therefore it is impossible to have comparable results with those performed on humans. Following her first test she went into action on her main target: Her father who died in 1666, due to a long agony related to the regular and repeated administration of poison which is also named in the literature « powder to successions11 », with reference to the Marquise's objective. [...]
[...] Ministry de the Justice. https://www.justice.gouv.fr/actualites/actualite/laffaire-poisons The marquise de Brinvilliers (1630-1676). (s. d.). https://www.parismarais.com/fr/arts-et-culture/personnalites-du-marais/la-marquise-de-brinvilliers-1630-1676.html Leary, F. (1997). « The Wickedest Woman. » Virginia Quarterly Review, 238-257. Lefrançois, M. (2023). The Great Female Criminals of History : From the Affair of the Poisons to the Present Day. Armand Colin Madame of Brinvilliers. [...]
