Wikipedia: Marie
Bosse, also known as La Bosse (died 8 May 1679), was a French
poisoner, fortune teller and alleged witch. She was one of the accused in the
famous Poison affair. It was Marie Bosse who pointed out the central figure La
Voisin.
Bosse, the widow of a horse trader, was one of the most
successful fortune tellers in Paris. Unofficially, she was also a poisoner, who
provided poison to people who wished to commit murder. By the end of 1678,
Bosse attended a party held by her friend Marie Vigoreaux, the wife of a
dressmaker, in the Rue Courtauvilain. During the party, she became drunk and
boasted freely that she had become so wealthy by selling deadly poisons to
members of the aristocracy that she would soon be able to retire. At the time,
the Paris police was investigating poison sales in Paris. A guest at the party,
the lawyer Maitre Perrin, reported the conversation to the police. The police
sent the wife of a police officer to Bosse to ask for poison to murder her
husband, and Bosse provided her with what proved to be deadly poison.
On the morning 4 January 1679, Marie Bosse was arrested with
her daughter Manon and her sons, Francois and Guillame. Her older son was a
soldier in the royal guard, the younger one was recently released from a
working house. According to the report, when the family was arrested they were
found in the only bed in the house and had committed incest. Marie Vigoreaux
was arrested the same day, and was found to have close ties to the family, as
she had sexual relations with all of the members of the family. Their
confessions revealed that the illegal sale of poison in the capital was handled
by a network of fortune tellers. This led to the arrest of the central figure La
Voisin and the opening of the Poison affair. Marie Bosse confessed of having
provided the poison used by Marguerite de Poulaillon in her murder attempt on
her husband. Marie Vigoreux died during interrogation under torture 9 May 1679.
Marie Bosse was condemned to death by burning and executed
in Paris on 8 May 1679. Her children and associates were also sentenced to
death.
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Marie
Bosse, or Vosse, also known as Hanivel of St. Layrens, was involved in
the infamous Poison Affair of the French Royal court in the late 17th
century, the central figure of which was Deshayes Catherine Deshayes
(“La Voisin”). Bosse was arrested January 4 1679 and executed May 10 of
the same year. A huge quantity of “white powders” and mercury were found
in her home. Following
Bosse’s arrest her relatives provided police with a list of her
clients. One client was a Lady Ferry whom Bosse has supplied with
arsenic-coated shirts used to murder her husband. Other witnesses would
testify regarding Bosse’s poisoning activities that had “been mixed up
in it for twenty years” and that “she has broken fifty marriages.”
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For more cases of this type, see: Occult Female Serial Killers
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