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    Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (22 July 1630 – 16 July 1676) was a French aristocrat who was accused and convicted of murdering her...
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    La marquise de Brinvilliers is an operatic 'drame lyrique' that was written as a collaborative effort on the part of nine composers. It premiered in Paris...
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    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French...
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    François-Adrien Boieldieu (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of the opera influenced Lucia di Lammermoor, I puritani, and La jolie fille de Perth. La dame blanche was one of the early attempts to introduce the fantastic...
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    opéra comique, influenced by Massenet. Echo et Narcisse (1779), La marquise de Brinvilliers (1831), Werther (1892), Briséïs (1897), Messidor (1897) Gluck...
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    d'Orléans, had been falsely attributed to poison, and the crimes of Madame de Brinvilliers (executed in 1676) and her accomplices were still fresh in the public...
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    Pharamond (1825) La dame blanche (1825) Les Deux Nuits (1829) La Marquise de Brinvilliers (1831), with Auber, Cherubini and others Concerto pour harpe...
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    influenced later operas like Lucia di Lammermoor, I puritani and La jolie fille de Perth. La dame blanche was first performed on 10 December 1825 by the Opéra-Comique...
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    Daniel Auber (category Directors of the Conservatoire de Paris)
    Ferdinand Hérold); Les trois genres (1824, with Adrien Boieldieu); La Marquise de Brinvilliers (1831, with Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri-Montan Berton, Felice...
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    (l'affaire des poisons) involving the Marquise de Brinvilliers and other high-ranking French nobility. Paris owes to de la Reynie its system of street lighting...
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