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Marie-Josephte Corriveau

Woman from New France who murdered her second husband (1733–1763)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
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Marie-Josephte Corriveau, better known as "la Corriveau", was a New French woman who was sentenced to death in 1763 by a British court martial for the murder of her second husband. She was hanged, and her body was placed in a gibbet on public display in Lévis. Becoming a well-known figure in Québécois folklore, she is the subject of many books and plays.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marie-Josephte Corriveau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.