Jégado, Hélène, 1803-1852

LC control no.	no2002090358
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Jégado, Hélène, 1803-1852 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1803-06-17
Death date	1852-02-26
Place of birth	Plouhinec (France)
Place of death	Rennes (France)
Profession or occupation	Household employees Serial murderers
Found in	La Jégado, 1999: p. 10, etc. (Hélène Jégado; b. June 17, 1803 in Kerordevin, Plouhinec; executed in Rennes Feb. 26, 1852; poisoner and thief) Wikipedia, April 30, 2018 (Hélène Jégado ; Hélène Jégado (1803--26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer; she is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years; after an initial period of activity, between 1833 and 1841, she seems to have stopped for nearly ten years before a final spree in 1851; Hélène Jégado was born on a small farm in Plouhinec (Morbihan), near Lorient in Brittany; she lost her mother at the age of seven and was sent to work with two aunts who were servants at the rectory of Bubry; after 17 years, she accompanied an aunt to the town of Séglien; she became a cook for the curé where an incident arose where she was accused of adding hemp from his grain house to his soup; Jégado was sentenced to death by guillotine and executed in front of a large crowd of onlookers on the Champ-de-Mars in Rennes on February 26, 1852)