Delphine lalaurie

The LaLaurie Mansion in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana is said to be one of the most haunted places in the most haunted city in the country.

The descendant of some of the first Irish-French colonists of New Orleans, Marie Delphine McCarty, otherwise remembered as Madame LaLaurie grew up to be the toast of Creole Society. Beautiful, wealthy and accomplished, the twice-times married socialite was renowned for her grace, gentility and her tasteful soirees. However, from 1828,…

Delphine LaLaurie apparently punished her slaves by whipping. She apparently whipped one of her slaves so brutally, she fell off a roof trying to escape her master’s beatings.

Delphine LaLaurie, otherwise known as Madame LaLaurie, is one of the most infamous people in New Orleans history. But who was she, really?

Delphina Lalaurie McCarty

Madam Lalaurie

The Vieux Carré Survey (VCS) is an extensive study of the properties and buildings within the French Quarter. Begun in the 1960s to inventory and index the buildings and sites within the area from the French colonial period to the current time; it references essential historical, architectural, legal, and sociological data on every individual lot and building in the Quarter. The materials cited are housed in a number of different repositories in the United States and abroad, including The…

Madame Delphine LaLaurie was an unspeakably cruel and evil killer in New Orleans.