The Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution mb-code 42-43528051 Antiquties from Westminster Hall

Antiquties from Westminster Hall

Napoleon fought an only partly conclusive war with Austria to help achieve Italian independence of Austrian rule of some of its regions

Inscribed below: 'Coenurus Cuniculi (nobis)

This act violated Belgian neutrality

The Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution mb-code 42-43528051 Antiquties from Westminster HallThe 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