The Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution mb-code 42-18568995 The lower margin contains text

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In the event

without great labour

trailing a garland of roses

The Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution mb-code 42-18568995 The lower margin contains textThe Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution, 1676 (1956). Marie Madeleine Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630 1676) was a French noblewoman and serial killer who poisoned several members of her family in order to inherit their property. She was beheaded and burnt at the stake for her crimes. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers