Madame de Brinvilliers, French aristocrat (died 1676)

Madame de Brinvilliers

French murderer (1630–1676)

Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers was a French aristocrat who was accused and convicted of murdering her father and two of her brothers in order to inherit their estates. After her death, there was speculation that she tested her poisons on upwards of 30 sick…