Marguerite Steinheil

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Marguerite Steinheil as a young woman
Steinheil in 1917 at her wedding to Baron Abinger

Marguerite Jeanne "Meg" Steinheil , née Japy (born April 16, 1869 in Beaucourt ( Territoire de Belfort ), † July 17, 1954 in Hove ) was a French wife and mistress .

Life

Marguerite Japy came from a wealthy industrial family; her father was Édouard Louis Japy (1832-1888), her mother Émilie Rau. She enjoyed the proper upbringing of a senior daughter and made her debut at a garrison ball in her hometown .

When she was suspected of having an affair with an officer at a ball held by this garrison in 1889, her parents sent her to Bayonne to spend the summer with her older sister . There she met the painter Adolphe Steinheil , a nephew of the painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier . They married a year later, on July 9, 1890, in Beaucourt and had a daughter together.

The Steinheil couple went to Paris and settled in Impasse Ronsin ( 15th arrondissement ). The invitations from the Steinheil family soon developed into a popular meeting place in a literary salon . a. François Coppée , Charles Gounod , René Lalique , Ferdinand de Lesseps , Pierre Loti , Jules Massenet and Émile Zola .

Her husband was invited to Chamonix ( Haute-Savoie ) by the French President Félix Faure in 1897 . At this meeting about a government contract, Marguerite Steinheil met Félix Faure and became his lover on another visit to Faures in Steinheil's studio.

She became known because, as his mistress, she played a piquant part in his death: Faure met Steinheil between two meetings in the Blue Salon of the Elysée Palace ; During oral sex, he then suffered a stroke, from the consequences of which he died that same evening. Marguerite Steinheil was then nicknamed "la Pompe Funèbre" (French literally: "the funeral pump", alluding to "les Pompes funèbres", the term for a funeral home).

On May 31, 1908, her husband Adolphe and her stepmother Madame Japy, who was visiting, were found dead in the Steinheil's Paris apartment. Madame Japy had a heart attack, Adolphe Steinheil was strangled . Marguerite Steinheil described in an open letter dated October 30, 1908, published in the newspaper L'Écho de Paris , what she had done to find the murderer. She charged several people with murder. When she was found to be innocent, she was arrested on November 25, 1908. Marguerite was charged with murder. The process caused a sensation, among other things because many of their admirers were known by name. She was acquitted on November 14, 1909.

She later lived in London under the name Mme. De Serignac. There she married on June 26, 1917 Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger (1876-1927) and became Lady Abinger.

In 1899 the French painter Léon Bonnat created a large-format oil painting by Marguerite Steinheil.

She died on July 18, 1954 in a nursing home in Hove .

Fonts

  • Mes mémoirs . Ramblot, Paris 1912.

literature

Fiction
  • Roland Schacht : Madame Steinheil Drama in eleven pictures . Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin 1933.
Non-fiction
  • Serge Cosseron, Jean-Marc Loubier: Les Femmes Criminelles de France . Editions De Borée, Sayat 2012, ISBN 978-2-8129-0601-5 ; therein the chapter Marguerite Steinheil, la Bovary de Montparnasse. Cour d assises de la Seine, 3 au 14 November 1909 , pp. 96–111.
  • René Floriot Deux femme en cour d'assises. Madame Steinheil and Madame Caillaux . Hachette, Paris 1966.
  • Armand Lanoux : Madame Steinheil ou la "Connaissance du président" . Grasset, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-246-28431-7 .
  • Hermann Mostar (greeting), Robert Adolf Stemmle (editing): death sentence. Nine criminal cases, Anna Böckler, Charley Ross, Madame Steinheil, Hugo Schenk, Helene Gillet, Franz Salesius Riembauer, Peter Kürten, Josef Jakubowski, Wilhelmine Krautz ( Der neue Pitaval ; Vol. 4). Desch, Munich 1964.
  • Hermann Pilz (arrangement): Madame Steinheil. The Pompadour of the Republic (Famous Criminal Cases; Vol. 8). Reclam, Leipzig 1913.
  • René Tavernier: Madame Steinheil, ange ou demon. Favorite de la republique . Presse de la Cité, Paris 1976.

Movie

Web links

Commons : Marguerite Steinheil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today Brighton and Hove .
  2. ↑ Serge Cosseron, Jean-Marc Loubier: Les Femmes Criminelles de France . Editions De Borée, Sayat 2012, p. 99.
  3. ↑ Serge Cosseron, Jean-Marc Loubier: Les Femmes Criminelles de France . Editions De Borée, Sayat 2012, p. 102.
  4. ↑ Mme Steinheil croit avoir découvert la piste des assassins de sa mère et de son mari. In: L'Écho de Paris , October 31, 1908, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Serge Cosseron, Jean-Marc Loubier: Les Femmes Criminelles de France . Editions De Borée, Sayat 2012, p. 106.
  6. ↑ Serge Cosseron, Jean-Marc Loubier: Les Femmes Criminelles de France . Editions De Borée, Sayat 2012, p. 109.
  7. ↑ In the leading roles Cristiana Reali and Didier Bezace .
personal data
SURNAME Steinheil, Marguerite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Japy, Marguerite Jeanne (maiden name); Lady Abinger (married name); Mme. De Serignac; Steinheil, Meg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French wife and mistress
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaucourt
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1954
Place of death Hove