Claim: Madame de Brinvilliers, a French pauper accused of three murders by poison, has been written about in many poems and stories, including fictional accounts of her life by Arthur Conan Doyle, a poem about poisoning by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and an account of her capture and burning by Judith Merkle Riley.
Evidence: Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (22 July 1630 – 17 July 1676) was a French aristocrat(a noble woman)accused of three murders.