Princes and Poisoners Studies of the Court of Louis XIV
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Princes and Poisoners STUDIES OF THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
PREFATORY NOTE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
MARIE MADELEINE DE BRINVILLIERS
I. HER LIFE
II. HER TRIAL
III. HER DEATH
THE POISON DRAMA AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
I. THE SORCERESSES
The Dinner of La Vigoureux.
Sorcery in the Seventeenth Century
The practices of the Witches
The Alchemists
La Voisin
The Magician Lesage
The ‘Chambre Ardente'
Louis XIV and the Poison Affair
The Dinner of La Vigoureux.
Sorcery in the Seventeenth Century
The practices of the Witches
The Alchemists
La Voisin
The Magician Lesage
The ‘Chambre Ardente'
Louis XIV and the Poison Affair
II. MADAME DE MONTESPAN
III. A MAGISTRATE
THE DEATH OF ‘MADAME'[12]
I
II
III
IV
II
III
IV
RACINE AND THE POISONS QUESTION
THE ‘DEVINERESSE’
INDEX
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