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Some dark histories have humble beginnings. Born in 1640, Catherine Deshayes, the wife of a Parisian jeweler and silk merchant named Antoine Monvoisin, who had a shop at Pont-Marie, in Paris, France. Things went well for a while, mundane even, until her husband’s business floundered and went under in the 1660s, leaving them to scramble. Read more »