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  1. Jan 9, 2017 · Marie Lafarge- a Frenchwoman who poisoned her husband with arsenic and was put on the most popular trial | The Vintage News. Featured. Lifestyle. Jan 9, 2017 Tijana Radeska. Photo Credit: Par Bachelot Pierre J-P /Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

  2. Marie Lafarge. Marie-Fortunée Lafarge (née Capelle; 15 January 1816 – 7 November 1852) was a French woman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable because it was one of the early trials to be followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, and because she was the first person ...

  3. Image 1 of 2. Toxicology on trial: Mathieu Orfila and the Lafarge murder case. In France, in 1840, a notorious murder trial put the young science of toxicology to a dramatic test. Rumored to be unhappy in her marriage, Marie Lafarge, age 24, was charged with poisoning her husband Charles.

  4. Jul 13, 2020 · A year before the murder, twenty-three-year-old Marie Fortunée Cappelle was married against her will to Charles Lafarge, a brutish ironworker who claimed to be rich but in fact was bankrupt. While on a business trip in Paris, Charles received a cake in the mail from his wife.

  5. Sep 19, 2019 · September 2019 0 Tabea Tietz. Marie Lafarge (1816 – 1852) On September 19, 1840, Marie-Fortunée Fafarge was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning. Her case has become notable because she was the first person convicted largely on direct forensic toxicological evidence.

  6. Marie Lafarge, née Capelle, was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband Charles Pouch-Lafarge by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Lafarge was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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  8. drangelabuckley.substack.com › p › laffaire-lafargeL'Affaire Lafarge

    May 17, 2024 · Charles Joseph Dorothée Pouch Lafarge, aged 28, was a successful and wealthy businessman from Le Glandier, in Corrèze, who owned a number of forges and lived in a fine manor house. He was a widow. The couple met in August 1839 and, despite Marie’s unfavourable first impressions of her would-be husband, they married two days later. When Marie travelled to Le Glandier to settle in her new ...

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