Madame Delphine LaLaurie

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful house filled with beautiful things in a beautiful city and within this luxurious dwelling lived a manipulative and absolutely psychotic and murderous princess.  

Atlas Obscura.  LaLaurie Mansion.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  A symbolic Piece of New Orleans Architecture – and a Ghostly Legend.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lalaurie-mansion

 

French Quarter Phantoms Ghost Tours.  The Real Story Behind the LaLaurie Mansion, New Orleans Most Haunted Home.  https://www.frenchquarterphantoms.com/blog/the-real-story-behind-the-lalaurie-mansion-new-orleans-most-haunted-home

 

Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans.  What Really Happened at the LaLaurie House?  Robert Cangelosi, Jr.  November 1, 2019.  https://prcno.org/what-really-happened-at-the-lalaurie-house/

 

The French Quarter’s LaLaurie Mansion will Star in a New Horror Franchise.  Missy Wilkinson.  10-29-2019.  https://nola.curbed.com/2019/10/29/20938439/lalaurie-mansion-new-horror-franchise-film-the-conjuring

 

Ghost City Tours.  The Haunted LaLaurie Mansion.  https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/

 

Look for: The New Orleans Bee April 11, 1834.

 

All That’s Interesting.  Madame LaLaurie’s Most Sickening Acts of Torture and Murder.  Katie Serena. https://www.allthatsinteresting.com/madame-lalaurie

 

NOLA.  Another Era for the LaLaurie House:  See Elegant Makeover for Haunted French Quarter Mansion.  Susan Langenhennig 10-23-2013. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/home_garden/article_f0c51023-9560-5fc9-9063-f550e01c7b0c.html

 

Altered Dimensions.  Madame Marie Delphine LaLaurie – New Orleans Socialite Caged, Tortured, and Maimed her Slaves for Fun.    10-21-2013.  Serial Killers.  https://www.altereddimensions.net/2013/mad-madame-marie-delphine-lalaurie-new-orleans-socialite-serial-killer-caged-tortured-killed-slaves

 

Portland State University PDX Scholar.  The Radical Impact of Madame Delphine Lalaurie on Slavery and the Image of African Americans, 1831 – 1840.  Sophie A. Rehlaender.  Lakeridge High School.  2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=younghistorians

 

New Orleans as It Was.  Henry C. Castellanos. 

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