Marquise Brinvillier

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The Marquise de Brinvilliers, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere, comes from the set of Eight Volumes of Celebrated Crimes. A passage says that towards the end of the year 1665, on a fine autumn evening, a considerable crowd was assembled on the Pont-Neuf, and that the centre of attraction was a closely shut carriage.

A passage says M. de Dreux d’Aubray, who had the scrupulosity of a legal dignitary, was scandalised at his daughter’s conduct and procured a warrant for the arrest of Sainte-Croix. A passage says Saint-Thomas thought the incident of more importance than the trial, and that when the confessor had admitted the breach of faith the judges were obliged to revoke their sentence and pardon the criminal. A passage says the marquise looked fully at Desgrais for some time, praying for him, and, fixing her eyes on the crucifix, began to pray for herself.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas wrote at industrial scale, with a workshop behind him, and the most important member of it was Auguste Maquet, who drafted plots and researched the novels that went out under Dumas's name alone.