Gabrielle Bompard

Gabrielle Bompard (born 1868) was a French murderer in the 1889 Gouffé Case who, conspiring with Michel Eyraud, was responsible for the homicide by strangulation of the bailiff Gouffé after luring him into her home, which fascinated the public and media in France and abroad due to her claim of being under hypnosis. Her mother died of lung disease when Bompard was 13.

On July 24, 1889, Gabrielle Bompard moved into the ground floor apartment at No. 3 Rue Tronson-Ducoudray.

On August 15, 1889 on a road through the district of Millery, about ten miles from Lyon, the substantially decomposed body of Gouffé was found by a road-mender. received a letter from someone who suspected that Bompard and Eyraud (both had warrants out for their arrest) had stayed in his house. which was successful despite other doctors assessing her in court and finding that she was easy to hypnotize but had likely not been in such a state during the murder. Gabrielle Bompétard: Lament, the song, was inspired by the case and features Bompard on the scoresheet's cover. "The Bloody Trunk: the murder of bailiff Gouffé, the Eyraud case and Gabrielle Bompard" by Jules de Grandpré, is a book detailing the case that was published in 1890 in Paris: the peak of Bompard's fame. Bompard is illustrated alone on the cover, a rare aspect in the case's coverage which often features Bompard and Eyraud as a pair committing the murder, or depicts Gouffé. Little is known about Bompard's life after the Gouffé case or her death.