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Paris. The late reign of Louis XIV. A death that should have been ordinary. On 31 July 1672, a man is found dead in his Paris rooms-and an inventory opens a locked cassette that should never have been opened. Inside: ""diverse vials"" and nine letters linked to Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers. In the official account, those letters point to an unthinkable claim: that a noblewoman poisoned her own father (1666) and two brothers (1670). And the vials? ""Virulent poisons"" said to leave little trace-perfect for a world where illness already looked like death. What begins as a private scandal becomes a matter of state, tangled with money, influence, and ministerial rivalry. Brinvilliers runs. Paris hunts. And when the machinery of justice finally closes around her, ""truth"" is produced through procedure-confession, coercion, and spectacle. The Marquise of Poison is true crime and history: it follows the paper trail, keeps the legal process visible, and separates what can be shown from what is merely said-refusing the easy, sensational version of a case that terrified a city. Content note: murder, coercion, judicial violence, and execution.

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