Delphine LaLaurie
Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy was a New Orleans Creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household. Born during the Spanish colonial period, LaLaurie married three times in Louisiana and was twice widowed. She maintained her position in New Orleans society until April 10, 1834, when rescuers responded to a fire at her Royal Street mansion. They discovered bound slaves in the attic who showed evidence of cruel, violent abuse over a long period. She escaped to France with her family.
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Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy was a New Orleans Creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household. Born during the Spanish colonial period, LaLaurie married three times in Louisiana and was twice widowed. She maintained her position in New Orleans society until April 10, 1834, when rescuers responded to a fire at her Royal Street mansion. They discovered bound slaves in the attic who showed evidence of cruel, violent abuse over a long period. Her house was subsequently sacked by an outraged mob of New Orleans citizens. She escaped to France with her family. The mansion traditionally held to be LaL Laurie’s is a landmark in the French Quarter, in part because of its history and for its architectural significance. However, her house was burned by the mob, and the mansion at 1140 Royal Street was in fact rebuilt after her departure from New Orleans. She had four children by Blanque, named Marie Louise Pauline, Louise Marie Laure, Marie Louise Jeanne, and Jean Pierre Paulin Blanques. She managed in her own name with little involvement of her husband in her husband’s affairs. In 1832, she had a 2-story mansion built there with her third husband and two daughters, and maintained a central position in the city’s society. The marriage soon showed signs of strain, however; on November 16, 1832 she petitioned the First Judicial District Court for a separation from her husband.
The court confirmed her separation and said that her son and two living daughters were not unsupportable. She claimed that her husband had treated her in such a manner as to render their living together un-supportable, which does not support her claims. She later had two more children by a different husband, who was younger than her. She died in 1834. She was buried in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, where she had lived since the early 1800s with her second husband, a prominent banker, merchant, lawyer, and legislator. She also had a daughter, Marie-Jeanne L’Érable, also known as \”the widow Le Comte\”, as her marriage to Louis B. Macarty was her second. Her uncle by marriage, Esteban Rodríguez Miró, was governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and Florida during 1785–1791, and her cousin, Augustin de Macarty, was mayor of New. Orleans from 1815 to 1820. Her husband Don Ramón de Lopez y Angulo, a Caballero de la Royal de Carlos, had been appointed to the position of consul general for Spain in the Territory of Orleans in the 1760s after France was defeated in the Seven Years’ War. Don Ramon had been called to appear at the court of Spain in 1804, and he died in Havana, where he was then en route to Madrid with his daughter Marie-BorjaBorgia Delphina Lopez de la Candelaria.
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