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Delphine LaLaurie

1787 - 1849

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Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Delphine LaLaurie has received more than 6,070,991 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Delphine LaLaurie is the 118th most popular extremist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 2,546th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,265th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Delphine LaLaurie ranks 118 out of 283. Before her are Yigal Amir, Joachim Kroll, Dennis Nilsen, Kōzō Okamoto, Omar Abdel-Rahman, and Sante Geronimo Caserio. After her are Aslan Usoyan, Frank Nitti, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Elisabeth Becker, and Aldrich Ames.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Delphine LaLaurie ranks 19. Before her are Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Otto von Kotzebue, Edmund Kean, Friedrich Krupp, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, and Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. After her are Ludwig Uhland, Eliza Poe, William Etty, James Weddell, Christian Ludwig Brehm, and Konstantin Batyushkov. Among people deceased in 1849, Delphine LaLaurie ranks 30. Before her are Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, Stephan Endlicher, Dionisio Aguado y García, and Thomas Robert Bugeaud. After her are Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Goffredo Mameli, William Etty, Quatremère de Quincy, Angelica Catalani, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Delphine LaLaurie ranks 2,546 out of 20,380. Before her are Earl Boen (1945), John C. Calhoun (1782), Barbara Bain (1931), Philo Farnsworth (1906), Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), and Sean Young (1959). After her are Richard Brautigan (1935), James L. Brooks (1940), Gloria Grahame (1923), Edward Herrmann (1943), Stephen Sondheim (1930), and James Remar (1953).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Delphine LaLaurie ranks 32. Before her are Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Whitey Bulger (1929), Robert Hansen (1939), Barry Seal (1939), Richard Ramirez (1960), and Baruch Goldstein (1956). After her are Aldrich Ames (1941), David Berkowitz (1953), Stephen Paddock (1953), Rodney Alcala (1943), Robert Stroud (1890), and Charles Whitman (1941).

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