Delphine Delamare

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Delphine Delamare (born Véronique Delphine Couturier; 17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848) was a French housewife who reportedly had several lovers and died by suicide. She married a country doctor and, feeling bored with her life, began affairs and accumulated debts. She died in Ry near Rouen by taking prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide). The Delamare home and her tombstone still exist in Ry. Delamare is said to have inspired the character Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Her husband, Eugène Delamare, had studied medicine with Flaubert’s father.