Héra Mirtel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Héra Mirtel

French writer and feminist activist

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1868

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1931

Profession: writer, poet, salonnière

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo (pen names, Héra Mirtel, Juliette de Boulogne, Juliette de Lotus; October 24, 1868 - March 21, 1931), was a French writer, woman of letters, militant feminist, salonnier, lecturer, and ardent suffragist.
She was also a spiritist and a believer in the Black Mass, a stock exchange gambler, a plotter for the restoration of the royalist régime in France, as well as an advisor of other women in matrimony and affairs of the heart.
Mirtel was famous for the murder of her second husband, Georges Bessarabo, whose body was sent in a "bloody trunk" "from Paris to Nancy, by rail.
Brilliantly defended by Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, she was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.
She was suspected of having murdered her first husband as well.