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The Marquise de Brinvilliers before execution, 1676 (1956). Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630-1676) was a French noblewoman and serial killer who poisoned several members of her family in order to inherit their property. She was beheaded and burnt at the stake for her crimes. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.