Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Check out The Original Tombstone Tourist website at thetombstonetourist.com/graves/violette-noziere for the complete biography and more exciting content!
On a hot, humid August evening in 1933, in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced “medication,” which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; her father died while the mother barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of “double parricide” became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing?
In the end she was found guilty, sentenced to death. Then the sentenced was commuted to life at hard labor … then down to 12 years … then released from prison in 1945.
Violette Nozière can be found resting at Neuvy-sur-Loire in the Bourgogne region in France. From the entry gates walk towards the center of the small cemetery and her family grave can be found approximately 8 spaces from the back of the cemetery (GPS 47.525275, 2.890656).
Video is courtesy of frequent contributor and Friend of the Original Tombstone Tourist Maude Carrard.
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Check out The Original Tombstone Tourist website at thetombstonetourist.com/graves/violette-noziere for the complete biography and more exciting content!
On a hot, humid August evening in 1933, in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced “medication,” which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; her father died while the mother barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of “double parricide” became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing?
In the end she was found guilty, sentenced to death. Then the sentenced was commuted to life at hard labor … then down to 12 years … then released from prison in 1945.
Violette Nozière can be found resting at Neuvy-sur-Loire in the Bourgogne region in France. From the entry gates walk towards the center of the small cemetery and her family grave can be found approximately 8 spaces from the back of the cemetery (GPS 47.525275, 2.890656).
Video is courtesy of frequent contributor and Friend of the Original Tombstone Tourist Maude Carrard.
#famousgraves #gravesite #grave #cemetery #cemeterylovers #truecrimestories
