Catherine Philbert

Catherine Philbert, also Catherine Brunet, née Bonnières (died in June 1679) is known as a defendant of the Poison Affair (1677-1682).

Life Catherine Bonnières first married the craftsman M. Brunet, son of the musician Jean Brunet. She was the mistress of the royal court musician Philippe Rebille Philbert, but her husband Brunet, who was unaware of the affair, engaged Philbert with her daughter.

In 1673, she consulted La Voisin, who encouraged Marie Bosse to sell her a poison acquired from Magdelaine de La Grange, which Catherine Philbert used to poison her first husband: Monsieur Brunet died soon after, and she remarried to her daughters fiance Philippe Rebille Philbert.