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Marquise Brinvillier

Alexandre Dumas

Book Overview: 

The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, scandals (Affair of the Poisons) and mysteries (the Man in the Iron Mask) in French history. This story recounts her major crimes, torture, conviction and execution.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ng, his enormities were so well accredited that there was no scruple as to having him arrested. A warrant was out against him: Exili was taken up, and was lodged in the Bastille. He had been there about six months when Sainte-Croix was brought to the same place. The prisoners were numerous just then, so the governor had his new guest put up in the same room as the old one, mating Exili and Sainte-Croix, not knowing that they were a pair of demons. Our readers now understand the rest. Sainte-Croix was put into an unlighted room by the gaoler, and in the dark had failed to see his companion: he had abandoned himself to his rage, his imprecations had revealed his state of mind to Exili, who at once seized the occasion for gaining a devoted and powerful disciple, who once out of prison might open the doors for him, perhaps, or at least avenge his fate should he be incarcerated for life.

The repugnance felt by Sainte-Croix for his fellow-prisoner did not last long, and. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Una deliziosa piccola perla di indagine storica, di eccelsa qualita' di scrittura e gusto per l'affabulazione. Il gigante Dumas e' tale anche in questa breve ricostruzione di un famoso episodio di cronaca criminale seicentesco. I fatti, l'indagine d'archivio, la narrazione che a volte e' persino pul

Che intensità che si respira in questo racconto del celebre Dumas. Il libro parte quasi come un giallo dove però i protagonisti sono gli assassini. Pagina dopo pagina si dipanano i loro crimini e si vedono affinare i loro metodi con fredda e spietata perseveranza. Poi, in un capovolgimento di fronti

Certo è che da Dumas non potevo aspettarmi un horror, piuttosto una storia ricca di tensione e di particolari drammatici.
In effetti le prime pagine danno questa impressione, poi però la storia diventa cronaca, un susseguirsi di eventi e testimonianze tratti dai documenti che sono stati redatti duran

Un paio di secoli prima che la televisione portasse nelle case le storie dei delitti più o meno celebri, con dovizia di dettagli, interviste e ricostruzioni oltre che racconti serializzati e romanzati basati su questi fatti, a quanto pare la gente era già come oggi.

Non poteva avere la televisione, q

Suddividerei questo libro in tre parti. La prima, la più interessante, vede Santa-Croce come un conte di Montecristo che durante la prigionia entra in possesso di un immenso patrimonio, in questo caso la conoscenza… nell’arte dei veleni; grazie all’italiano Esili - mai fidarsi degli italiani :D tant

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