Brinvilliers, Marquise de, notorious for her gallantries and for poisoning her father, brother, and two sisters for the sake of their property; was tortured and beheaded; the poison she used appears to have been the Tofana poison, an art which one of her paramours taught her (1630-1676). See Aqua Tofana.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brink, Jan Ten * Brisbane