Giulia Tophania (1653-1719)
Overview
Guilia Tophania or Giulia Tofana or Toffana (1635-1719) was a supplier of poison to wives who wanted to be widows. She was executed later on by strangulation and to stop the murder incidents from continuing, King Louis XIV passed a decree forbidding the sale of poisons from apothecaries to unknown persons.