The reign of Madame Lalaurie will be something people will always remember. In 1832, Doctor Louis Lalaurie and his wife Delphine Lalaurie, referred to as Madame Lalaurie, moved into a Creole house into the French Quarter in New Orleans. In the Creole city where she lived, she became one of the most influential women. Although she had a graceful presence, she had a lot to hide behind closed doors. Madame had more than dozens of slaves that attended to her. Lalaurie was never nice to her slaves. She would brutally beat them and do unimaginable things to them. She would keep her workers chained to their work stations. One time she chased a little girl to her death when she chased her off of the roof. Back in the day it wasn’t really considered…show more content… She would starve them, rip off their fingernails, chop their body parts off and do weird things with them. Some of the slaves that were alive begged for mercy. They begged for Madame to just kill them and put them out of their misery so that they didn’t have to suffer anymore. Madame figured if she let them suffer, it would bring more pleasure to her. She showed no remorse. Eventually, neighbors began hearing horrific noises from Lalauries house and there was a court order allowing police to break down the doors of her house and search it. The neighbors and town citizens even ransacked her house and destroyed everything she had. In the course of these events, the mutilated and tortured slaves were discovered chained up. Some had their organs wrapped around them as some sick kind of torture. By the time people had went through her house she had ran away. Legend has it that the last person to see her was poet William Cullen Bryant. Supposedly she was headed to New York and Paris. Some people claim that Madame Lalaurie snuck her way back into New Orleans. Other people say that she lived out the rest of her life in Paris. In Paris her records were claimed to be found. When she died her son in law signed her death records as a witness. She is believed to be buried in the St. Louis Cemetery; however, there are no records of this. Her death remains a