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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeartRad and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky.

Listener discretion advised.

In one of the earliest episodes of this podcast, episode 9, to be exact, I told you the story of Marie Madeline Dobre, the Marquise de Brunvillee, and her collection

of poisons. As a refresher, the Marquise learned the art of poison from her lover, Godine

de Saint-Croix, who had himself been taught by a fellow prisoner during a three-month stay in the Bastille,

an imprisonment which had been thanks to Marie's angry, powerful father.

It was a little twisty and complicated.

Upon the death of San Croix, police found a collection of incriminating letters and notes that gave

them reason to believe that the deaths of Marie's father and her two brothers may not have been

as natural as the coroners had concluded at the time. The Marquis fled the country, but was soon captured and arrested.

Under the threat of torture, she admitted to having poisoned her father and brothers,

as well as having attempted to poison her sister-in-law and her husband.

Her motive, well, possibly revenge, but also she claimed she had done it to ensure

the futures of herself and her children after her father only left the family fortune to the

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