Véronique Delphine Delamare (born Couturier; 17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848)[1] was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide.
[citation needed] Delamare was the daughter of a wealthy land owner.
She married an unexciting country doctor, and being bored, she took various lovers.
She committed suicide by taking prussic acid (known today as hydrogen cyanide).
[citation needed] Her husband, Eugène Delamare, had been a medical student of Flaubert's father.