Travel Guide Beyssac

The Lafarge caseMarie Capelle, a fine Parisian, cultivated and especially richly endowed, is 23 years old when she married Charles Lafarge, master of forge in Glandier in August 1839. The one who dreamed of a brilliant existence comes into the married home infested with rats where her mother-in-law, a wicked woman, is suffering. In December of the same year, Charles Lafarge fell ill and died in January 1840 in horrific pain. The Public prosecutor ordered an investigation and the autopsy concluded that arsenic was present in the viscera. Also involved in a diamond theft, Marie Lafarge is incarcerated. Then begins a trial that would delight the whole of France, in which one of its lawyers, Charles Lachaud, will prove to be an ardent and passionate defender. Condemned to forced work in perpetuity Ms. Lafarge will be pardoned by Prince President Napoleon, three months before his death in September 1952. Still today, doubts remain about his guilt.