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But what is hard to deny is the multiple sources and eyewitness accounts of the cruel and inhumane conditions that the Lalauries kept their enslaved persons in. And it should be noted that she was never accused of mistreating her bondspeople until after she married Dr. Louis Lalaurie. Perhaps she began to take her unhappy marriage out on her servants. The forty-year-old Delphine was now on her third husband, and the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Lalaurie was a new father in a new country with a very wealthy wife. Lalaurie was an "older" woman at thirty-eight, with two dead husbands, five children, and considerable wealth. One could speculate a few scenarios around their blossoming relationship, but one thing we know for sure is that Madame Delphine became pregnant with Dr. Lalaurie's child out of wedlock.

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One must wonder if the young girls were playing pranks on each other, or if their claims that some phantom woman had scarred them was true. No memoirs exist from this period, just a scattering of accounts here. The mansion traditionally held to be LaLaurie's is a landmark in the French Quarter, in part because of its history and for its architectural significance. However, her house was burned by the mob, and the "LaLaurie Mansion" at 1140 Royal Street was in fact rebuilt after her departure from New Orleans. Today, nobody lives in this home, which belongs to the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

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Negligence and abuse of slaves were common in the antebellum South. But as the Lalaurie mansion burned to the ground, the true extent of Madame Lalaurie’s cruelty would soon send shockwaves through the city of New Orleans. Bryant wrote that he set sail for France out of New York on June 24, 1834. Madame Delphine Lalaurie did have one loyal servant on her staff, this we know for sure. Amid the mayhem and flames, her enslaved coachman brought her carriage around, and Delphine stepped into it with complete confidence. It is said that the angry citizens tried desperately to hold the horses and snatch her from the carriage.

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Martineau's account, written in 1838, indicates that the enslaved people had been flayed, and wore spiked iron collars to prevent movement of the head. After this incident, an investigation took place, and charges of unusual cruelty leveled against Delphine. However, Delphine managed to use her family's connections to get them all back to Royal Street.

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An elderly enslaved woman started the fire to kill herself so she could escape LaLaurie's sadistic wrath. So disturbed were the townspeople of New Orleans that they formed a mob and pillaged the mansion. Blackpast reports that LaLaurie fled and most likely died in Paris, France, in 1849 without facing any repercussions for her horrific crimes. The mansion, however, still stands as a reminder of what LaLaurie's slaves endured. In the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune on February 4, 1934, much of this information was brought to light by Meigs Frost.

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(The problem with unrequited love is that it is generally not, well, requited). Montreuil comforted himself, no doubt, by speaking of Delphine in a derogatory manner. Two weeks later, at the corner of Governor Nicholls and Royal Street, our guide was out on the streets again, bringing another tour around. She had positioned her group under a set of street lamps, burnt out for weeks. She launched into the story, but the minute she said the name "Leia," the lamps flickered on! The guide went on with the show--when she said the name "Leia" again, those same lamps blew out.

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Seven slaves were rescued from deplorable conditions, "their bodies covered with scars and loaded with chains." They were taken out on stretchers and delivered to safety at the Cabildo. While a mob proceeded to destroy the furnishings of the home in outrage. The debt that Blanque left behind could have depleted Lalaurie's wealth. Delphine had the luck of the Irish, though it came in the form of morbid and macabre luck. Her father, Chevalier Louis Barthélémy de Macarty, passed away in 1824, leaving his children with a substantial inheritance. His daughter, with a free woman of color, was included in his will, he left her "$5,000 and two slaves."

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But within the first sight of the LaLaurie Mansion, the medium sucked in a deep breath. "Such sadness," she whispered as she rocked back on her heels. Pulling out her phone, she proceeded to snap a picture of the mansion.

Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy was born on March 19, 1787, in New Orleans during the Spanish Colonial period. She was one of five children born to Louis Barthelemy de McCarty (originally Chevalier de MacCarthy) and Marie-Jeanne L’Érable, both of whom were prominent in the New Orleans’ European Creole community. It is considered the most haunted building in all of New Orleans.

Generally, the Catholic Church only did this when the infant in question was close to death. Within a short amount of time, reports of physical assaults came to light. We know that young girls would approach their teachers, tears streaking down their faces, with their sleeves rolled up. The exposed flesh of their forearms were scratched and bruised. In her 1999 novel Fever Season, mystery writer Barbara Hambly incorporated the events of the 1834 fire and discovery of the brutal treatment of the slaves into her narrative. The structure that stands at 1140 Royal Street today was constructed in 1838 as a private residence and later used as a school and apartments.

When the coachmen arrived back, the determined crowd met the carriage and began to destroy the carriage and stab the horses to death. Less than a year after the Battle of New Orleans, the fifty-year-old Jean Blanque passed away. Delphine, just twenty-eight years old, was left to settle Blanque's estate. His estate consisted of debts that totaled over $160,000, over $2.5 million in today's currency. In 1816, Delphine renounced their community property to the courts and forfeited all of their mutual assets, to protect and keep her personal property and assets. She was barely fourteen when she married her first husband, the 35-year-old widow, Ramon López y Ángulo de la Candelaria.

In New Orleans itself, much of Madame Lalaurie’s behavior had been overlooked for years. But once the whisperings of her cruel treatment gave way to the reality revealed by the fire, residents were quick to condemn her actions. This was made clear by their destruction of the Lalaurie mansion itself. Abolitionist newspapers printed lurid descriptions of Madame Lalaurie’s sadism.

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This is where the debate over slavery had been simmering for years. The legend of this New Orleans house of horrors did not disappear with its destruction. Nor did the disappearance of Dr. and Madame Lalaurie do anything to dampen the morbid curiosity and indignation that surrounded the story. In another, they found slaves tied up in uncomfortable positions and forced to wear spiked collars.

Today, the handsome house at 1140 Royal Street looks as charming as ever. Though it looks lovely from the sidewalk, this house of horrors has a truly nightmarish history. According to local lore, there’s a reason that no one owned the house for very long.