Delphine LaLaurie
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| Born |
Marie Delphine Macarty c. 1780 New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana Territory |
| Died | 7 December 1849 (aged 68–69) Paris, France |
| Other names | Marie Delphine LaLaurie, Marie Delphine Macarty LaLaurie, Delphine Macarty LaLaurie , Delphine Maccarthy LaLaurie, Madame LaLaurie |
| Occupation | socialite |
| Known for | Torturing and killing of four black slaves, discovered in 1834 |
| Spouse(s) | Don Ramón de Lopez y Angulo (married 1800 – died 1804) Jean Blanque (married 1808 – died 1816) Dr. Leonard Louis Nicolas LaLaurie (married 1825) |
| Children | Marie-Borja/Borgia Delphine Lopez y Angulo de la Candelaria, nicknamed "Borquita" (daughter by Don Ramón de Lopez y Angulo) Marie Louise Pauline Blanque (daughter by Jean Blanque) Louise Marie Laure Blanque (daughter by Jean Blanque) Marie Louise Jeanne Blanque (daughter by Jean Blanque) Jeanne Pierre Paulin Blanque (son by Jean Blanque) |
Born Marie Delphine Macarty or Maccarthy (c. 1780 – 1849), more commonly known as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans Creole socialite and alleged serial killer, infamous for torturing and likely murdering her household slaves.
Born during the Spanish colonial period, Delphine Macarty married three times in Louisiana, having twice been widowed. She maintained her position in New Orleans society until April 10, 1834, when rescuers responded to a fire at her Royal Street mansion and discovered bound slaves in her attic who showed evidence of cruel, violent treatment over a long period. Lalaurie's house was subsequently sacked by an outraged mob of New Orleans citizens. She escaped to France with her family.
The mansion where Lalaurie lived is a landmark in the French Quarter, in part because of its history and in part because there were relatively few homes of such massive size in the Quarter.
Marie Delphine Macarty was born 1780, one of five children. Her father was Louis Barthelemy de McCarty, originally Chevalier de Maccarthy) whose father Barthelemy (de) Maccarthy brought the family to New Orleans from Ireland around 1730, during the French colonial period. (The Irish surname Maccarthy was shortened to Macarty or de Macarty.) Her mother was Marie Jeanne Lovable, also known as "the widow Lecomte", whose marriage to Louis B. Macarty was her second. Both were prominent in the town's white Creole community. Delphine's cousin, Augustin de Macarty, was mayor of New Orleans from 1815 to 1820.
On June 11, 1800, Mlle. Marie Delphine Macarty married Don Ramón de Lopez y Angulo, a Caballero de la Royal de Carlos, a high-ranking Spanish royal officer, at the Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.Luisiana, as it was spelled in Spanish, had become a Spanish colony in the 1760s. In 1804, after the American acquisition, Don Ramón had been appointed to the position of consul general for Spain in the Territory of Orleans.
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