Madame Lalaurie Attic

Lalaurie keeps many of her slaves in her attic where they inevitably become victims of grotesque experimentation and torture solely for the fascination of madame lalaurie.

Madame lalaurie attic.

An early portrait of madame delphine lalaurie. The history of the lalaurie mansion. She was born in new orleans circa 1780 to an irish gentleman and a french lady of upper society. The fire when it broke out at madame lalaurie mansion took the lives of many innocent slaves who were caught up inside their quarters.

The 12 000 square foot mansion was built in 1831 for marie delphine macarty lalaurie and her third husband the french native dr. The lalaurie mansion at night. Born during the spanish colonial period lalaurie married three times in louisiana and was twice widowed. Lalaurie was born around 1775 after her family moved from ireland to new orleans.

In 1831 madame lalaurie purchased a three story mansion at 1140 royal street in the french quarter. For nearly two centuries this infamous grey mansion has fascinated and terrified residents and visitors in new orleans. The public went berserk and broke the doors themselves. Losing her family and being buried for centuries has drained lalaurie of her will to live as is made apparent when she asks fiona goode to use her powers to end her torture.

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 creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household. As many society women did at the time madame lalaurie kept slaves. If true she was certainly a serial killer who had a torture chamber in her house and was only exposed due to a fire set in 1834 by a potential victim. Delphine lalaurie also known as madame lalaurie was a wealthy and powerful slave owner during the early 1800s at her new orleans royal street mansion.

We visited the lalaurie mansion as part of a walking ghost tour and heard an incredible story involving madame lalaurie. On april 10 1834 a fire at the lalaurie mansion in new orleans louisiana leads to the discovery of a torture chamber where enslaved workers are routinely brutalized by delphine lalaurie. Most of the city was shocked at how polite she was to them showing them kindness in public and even manumitting two of them in 1819 and 1832. Many onlookers tried to save the slaves from the attic but lalaurie and her husband refused to give them the keys to open up the attic.

The new orleans aristocrat madame lalaurie possessed a cruel darkness. Would have been nice if the house was open to the public. Those that weren t invited were said to stand across the street hoping for a merest glimpse of the elegance twirling about inside.