The Wolf of Soissons was a man-eating wolf which terrorized the commune of Soissons northeast of Paris over a period of two days in 1765, attacking eighteen people, four of whom died from their wounds.. The first victim of the wolf was a pregnant woman, attacked in the parish of Septmont on the last day of February. Diligent locals had taken the second trimester fetus from …

Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons (French: Olympe Mancini; 11 July 1638 – October 9, 1708) was the second-eldest of the five celebrated Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes because their uncle was Louis XIV's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin.