In 1897, Marguerite Steinheil was introduced, at Chamonix, to President Félix Faure of France, who was giving an official contract to Adolphe Steinheil, her husband. Because of this, Félix Faure came often to their home on the Impasse Ronsin.
Soon, Marguerite had become Félix Faure's mistress was regularly ushered into the salon bleu in the private quarters of the presidential Palais de l'Élysée.
On 16 February 1899, Félix Faure called Marguerite by telephone, asking her to come to the palace at the end of the afternoon. Some short time after her arrival, servants were rung for: they found the president laying on the couch while Marguerite Steinheil adjusted her disordered clothing. Félix Faure was dead several hours later.
Legend has it that she was performing oral sex on him when he suddenly died, and that his stiff hands were tangled in her hair.
She was later convicted and jailed for strangling her husband and stepmother.
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