On an autumn evening in 1665 a crowd on the Pont-Neuf watches a police officer arrest a cavalry captain from a closed carriage. That arrest of Sainte-Croix opens Dumas’s account of his lover, the Marquise de Brinvilliers, who learned the poisoner’s art and used it on her own family, and of her flight, capture, trial and confession.
True crime from Dumas’s Celebrated Crimes, told with a novelist’s sense of scene. Download the free EPUB.