Ash Kelley

He just needed to get some shit out of his system.

I guess so.

So is Wild Oats, I suppose.

In later accounts of their life together, the date of the marriage is often given as 1825, presumably to uphold Delphine's honor since she had become pregnant and given birth before they had married.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, at the time, his assets were listed as $2,000, which he had inherited from his mother and was still controlled by his father.

Delphine, on the other hand, was worth $67,000 at the time.

So there was a big imbalance of power, but it was an unusual one because it was tipped in the woman's favor for this era.

Yeah, which did not happen.

Now, in the personal papers of Baron Henry de Stemgemi, I have no idea if I said that correctly.

I think you did.

I loved it.

He was a business associate of Delphine's father.

There are letters that provide some secondhand accounts of the Lalaurie marriage.

In one letter, he wrote, they do not have a happy marriage.

They fight, often separate, and they return to each other, which would make one believe that someday they will abandon each other completely.

I mean, that makes sense because he did, like, pre-abandon her.

Now, in the summer of 1831, Delphine had grown tired of living in the country with Louis and started selling off her own property and mortgaging others to raise money for what would become her final home in New Orleans.

By August, she had purchased the vacant lot at 1140 Royal Street.

That's a very famous address now.