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Madame de Brinvilliers

1630 - 1676

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Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (French: [bʁɛ̃vilje]; 22 July 1630 – 16 July 1676) 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 people in hospitals, but these rumours were never confirmed. Her alleged crimes were discovered after the death of her lover and co-conspirator, Captain Godin de Sainte-Croix, who saved letters detailing dealings of poisonings between the two. After being arrested, she was tortured, forced to confess, and finally executed. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madame de Brinvilliers is the 86th most popular extremist (down from 45th in 2019), the 1,556th most popular biography from France (down from 1,067th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Extremist.

Madame de Brinvilliers is most famous for being the first woman to be executed by the guillotine in France. She was convicted of poisoning her father and two brothers.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Madame de Brinvilliers ranks 86 out of 283. Before her are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Barry Seal, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Ronald DeFeo Jr., Mohammed Deif, and Fritz Honka. After her are Pedro López, John Haigh, Shamil Basayev, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Willi Herold, and Susan Atkins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1630, Madame de Brinvilliers ranks 8. Before her are Sophia of Hanover, Stenka Razin, Eleonora Gonzaga, Hennig Brand, Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Olaus Rudbeck. After her are Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Ludolf Bakhuizen, Josefa de Óbidos, Pjetër Bogdani, Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria. Among people deceased in 1676, Madame de Brinvilliers ranks 10. Before her are Michiel de Ruyter, Francesco Cavalli, Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, and Claudia Felicitas of Austria. After her are Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Francis I Rákóczi, Paul Gerhardt, and Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame de Brinvilliers ranks 1,556 out of 6,770. Before her are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Emmanuel Todd (1951), Yvette Guilbert (1865), Hugh Magnus (1007), Paul Scarron (1610), and Sextus Afranius Burrus (1). After her are Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (1692), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), Aimé Jacquet (1941), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1609), and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645).

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Among EXTREMISTS In France

Among extremists born in France, Madame de Brinvilliers ranks 5. Before her are Gilles de Rais (1405), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), and Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409). After her are Michel Fourniret (1942), Jacques Mesrine (1936), Édouard Vaillant (1840), Zacarias Moussaoui (1968), and Yvan Colonna (1960).

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