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
The Mountebank of the Carrefour du Châtelet