THE MARCHIONESS
OF
BRINVILLIERS

THE POISONER OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

A Romance of Old Paris

By ALBERT SMITH

LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1886

The Escape of Lachaussée Prevented

CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I.]

The Mountebank of the Carrefour du Châtelet