Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris - Hardcoverby Sarah Maza (Author) On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen year old Violette Nozire gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era discussed