Overview
IN the judicial annals of France there has never been a more striking or celebrated figure than the Marquise de Brinvilliers. The enormity of her crimes, the brilliance of her rank, the circumstances accompanying her trial and death, -the story of which, as told by her confessor, the abbe Pirot, is one of the masterpieces of French literature, -finally, the strange energy of her character, which after her execution caused her to be regarded as a saint by a portion of the population of Paris: all these things will for long years to come attract to her the attention of all who are interested in the history of the past.
- | Author: Frantz Funck-Brentano
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jul 12, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 102 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1532706111
- | ISBN-13: 9781532706110
