They traveled to Mobile, Alabama, and then to Paris.Īfter the people entered the mansion slaves confessed to the police that Delphine was performing medical experiments on them, removing their skin, breaking bones and amputating limbs. In that event a mob invaded the LaLaurie's Mansion and Delphine and Leonard took to their carriage and escaped with their Creole coachman, Bastien driving. Some of them had their guts out of their bodies and tied to them, something really disgusting. When her Mansion went in flames in 1834 the police found the woman chained to the stove and seven other slaves tied with spiked iron collars and badly mutilated. Another slave: Lia jumped from the roof because Madame LaLaurie was mad at her because she didn't brush her hair properly. One slave preferred jump out of the window than being tortured by Delphine and he died so. People said that she enchained a 70 years old cook to the stove, someone said that she sacrified a few slaves for her husband to practice Haitian Vodoo rithes. It's a common opinion that in that time and after 3 marriage gone wrong Madame LaLaurie went really mad, there were rumors about her slaves living in continuous fear for her cruel actions. At that time people started to talk about Delphine mistreatments of slaves that seemed to be very cruel.
Leonard Louis Nicolas LaLaurie, with his name she got famous as Madame LaLaurie, he was about 20 years younger than her.ĭelphine purchased a three-story mansion at 1140 Royal Street in the French Quarter, this place will become famous later on. She was famous for torturing slaves and a lot of other sick behaviours, Delphine was born in New Orleans in 1787 from an irish immigrant (Barthelemy McCarthy) and a french woman (Marie-Jeanne).ĭelphine was known to be a beautiful woman and she got married quite early with a spanish official called Don Ramon de Lopez y Angulo, so Delphine became a really influent woman at that time.Īfter her husband died she married the richest man in the area, a banker: Jean Blanque and she had 4 children from him: Marie Louise Pauline, Louise Marie Laure, Marie Louise Jeanne, and Jeanne Pierre Paulin Blanque but unfortunately mr Blanque died 8 years later.Īfter that she married another man: dr. Madame Delphine LaLaurie nowadays is famous for the interpretation of Kathy Bates in the tv serie American Horror Story: Coven.
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