The Murder Network That Terrified Versailles
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Listener, never fear, it is I, Dr. Anthony Delaney from the After Dark podcast. And I am possessing your phone or your car radio or whoever it is that you listen to podcasts to ask you to vote for us in the Listener's Choice Award at this year's British Podcast Awards. Ooh, it's that time of year again. You can vote for us while you're folding laundry or learning about mass poisonings, or while you assemble furniture and contemplate mutiny, which I would mutiny if I was assembling furniture, or while you're lost in a graveyard that you thought was going to be a shortcut, but now you find yourself in the bowels of hell. Either way, you can simply go to www.britishpodcastawards.com forward slash voting and search After Dark.
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It's 1663. Beautiful and wealthy Marie Dobre has been experimenting with the dosage of her poison for months. She leans over a patient at the hospital in Paris. Two deadly drops find their way into the water on the bedside table. Marie is a serial killer in 17th century France. She murdered her father and her brother, her servants and more. But when her crimes were exposed, they uncovered a network of poisoners across Paris that reached all the way to the court of Louis XIV. Even his mistress, Madame de Montespan, was implicated in what became known as the Affair of the Poisons. More than 400 people were investigated and dozens were executed. So now, from the poisonous world of 17th century Paris, this is After Dark.
Well, hello and welcome to After Dark. I am Anthony and of course I'm not joined by Maddy because she is currently trying to investigate the inclusion of fluoride for Key Stage 1 children all across the north of England. Once she's that solved, she will be back. But for now, we've been joined by a plethora of guest co-hosts. And I'm going to wait for just a second to reveal who my current guest co-host is because you may have noticed that over my left shoulder there is a... Charming addition to the After Dark family. And this is Teresa. And Teresa has been sent to us by a listener called Shannon. And she lives in Canada. And she sent this to us all on her own back. And it is, I mean, not physically. She didn't actually carry it on her back.
There is post nowadays. And it is from Shan's Creepy Creations. Go and check her out. We also have like a hand and a skull thing over there. You'll see that in a minute in another shot when we reveal the co-host. But it is so brilliant. We are so grateful for this, Shannon. Thank you so much for sending it in. It's so perfect for After Dark. And now she has pride of place in the shot on YouTube. So if you're not watching on YouTube and you're just listening on the podcast, go and watch on YouTube and you'll see our new Teresa doll in the background. Right. Guest, co-host, reveal, time. A few weeks ago, I was teasing who we might have come in to After Dark as the guest co-host. And I felt a little bit bad because I posted a picture going, who do you think this might be?
Now, it was a brilliant co-host that went down an absolute storm with all of you guys. But everybody guessed wrong and they guessed consistently wrong and the same person the entire time. And that was who the guest co-host is this month.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–7:35
2
How did the Marie-Madeleine D'Aubray poisoning case ignite Parisian panic in the 1660s?
7:35–23:16
3
Why was poison historically seen as a 'woman's weapon' and how did gender shape access to poisons?
23:16–32:53
4
How did Madame de Brinvilliers (Marquise de Brinvilliers) allegedly use servants to carry out inheritances-by-poison?
32:53–49:57