The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (69 page)

42
. Ibid., p. 44.

43
. Ibid., pp. 94–5.

44
. Soman III, p. 404.

45
. Mandrou,
Magistrats et Sorciers,
p. 452.

46
. Kroll, p. 197; Mandrou,
op. cit.,
p. 361.

47
. Bussy V, p. 65.

48
. Bossuet V, pp. 444, 452.

49
. See Norton
SSV,
p. 252, Primi Visconti, p. 241.

50
. Sév. V, p. 226; Forster, p. 174.

51
. Briggs,
Communities of Belief,
pp. 34–6; Pirot I, p. 113.

52
. Amiel, p. 381.

53
. Rav. V, pp. 169, 178.

54
. Ibid., VII, p. 152; ibid., V, p. 182; Colbert VI, p. 423.

55
. Ibid., p. 55.

56
. Rav. V, p. 179.

57
. Ibid., pp. 178–93.

58
. Ibid., pp. 193, 197–200.

5: La Voisin

1
. Rav. V, p. 205.

2
. Ibid., pp. 229–32.

3
. Ibid., pp. 299, 293.

4
. La Fare, p. 150; Primi Visconti, p. 283.

5
. Rav. V, p. 348.

6
. Bussy IV, p. 335; Rav. V, pp. 339–40.

7
.
Catalogue Général des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques Publiques de France,
IX, p. 47.

8
. Rav. V, pp. 235, 248, 250, 248.

9
. Ibid., pp. 258, 278.

10
. Ibid., pp. 407–9, 380.

11
. Ibid., p. 502; Primi Visconti, p. 285; Rav. V, pp. 319, 299; ibid., VI, p. 39.

12
. For her drunken indiscretions see Rav. VI, p. 79; Primi Visconti, p. 290.

13
. Rav. V, p. 381.

14
. Ibid., VI, p. 26.

15
. Ibid., pp. 31, 37.

16
. Ibid., V, p. 489; ibid., VI, pp. 12, 28.

17
. Ibid., V, pp. 257–67.

18
. Ibid., pp. 267–74.

19
. Ibid., pp. 276–82.

20
. Ibid., p. 318.

21
. Ibid., pp. 295, 360–1.

22
. Ibid., pp. 470, 336, 305.

23
. Ibid., pp. 314, 316.

24
. Ibid., VI, p. 2; ibid., V, pp. 308, 336.

25
. Ibid., p. 278.

26
. Ibid., p. 338.

27
. Ibid., pp. 284–5.

28
. Ibid., p. 335; Bussy IV, p. 353.

29
. Ibid., pp. 358–9.

30
. Ibid., pp. 348, 354.

31
. Rav. V, pp. 360–1.

32
. Patin III, pp. 225–6; Maintenon,
Conseils et Instructions
I, p. 113.

33
. Patin III, pp. 225–6; Primi Visconti, p. 298.

34
. Rav. V, pp. 327–8, 354.

35
. Ibid., p. 379.

36
. Primi Visconti, p. 298; Rav. V, pp. 444, 331–3, 379, 324, 426.

37
. Ibid., pp. 246, 403, 472, 433.

38
. Ibid., pp. 348, 297–8, 414, 411, 291.

39
. Nass, pp. 154–5; Rav. V, pp. 425, 443–4.

40
. Ibid., pp. 425, 440, 474, 448.

41
. Ibid., pp. 443–4.

42
. Ibid., pp. 413, 407.

43
. AN Mss 1127, fo. 75; Rav. V, p. 387.

44
. Ibid., VII, p. 176.

45
. Ibid., V, p. 386.

46
. Ibid., pp. 393, 411.

47
. BN Collection Clairambault 986, fo. 209.

6: The Magician Lesage

1
. Rav. V, pp. 468–74.

2
. Ibid., pp. 479–81.

3
. Ibid., p. 477.

4
. Ibid., p. 242.

5
. Ibid., p. 219.

6
. Ibid., IV, pp. 11–13, 32.

7
. Ibid., p. 15.

8
. Clement,
Police,
p. 234; Mettam,
Government and Society,
p. 154.

9
. Petitfils,
L’Affaire des Poisons,
p. 60.

10
. Rav. VI, p. 84; ibid., V, pp. 373, 315.

11
. Ibid., pp. 373, 437, 386, 378, 293.

12
. Ibid., VI, pp. 57, 21–2; ibid., V, pp. 496–7; ibid., VI, p. 59.

13
. Ibid., V, pp. 455–6, 407–9.

14
. Ibid., pp. 377–8.

15
. Ibid., VI, p. 172.

16
. Ibid., pp. 21–2, 76.

17
. Ibid., pp. 21–2, 84, 33.

18
. Ibid., V, pp. 462–3, 367, 462–3.

19
. Ibid., pp. 369, 287; ibid., VI, p. 91.

20
. Ibid., V, pp. 448–9.

21
. Ibid., VI, pp. 17, 12, 15.

22
. Ibid., p. 17.

23
. Ibid., pp. 88, 44–5.

24
. Ibid., V, pp. 287, 448, 474–5, 291, 379, 448; ibid., VI, pp. 79–80, 84.

25
. Ibid., V, pp. 421–3, 425.

26
. Colbert VI, p. 413; Rav. V, p. 502; Beurain, p. 46.

27
. Rav. V, p. 478.

28
. See Lemoine,
Les des Oeillets, passim.

29
. Primi Visconti, pp. 108–9.

30
. Colbert VI, p. 420.

31
. Lemoine,
op. cit.,
p. 49.

32
. Rav. V, p. 483.

33
. Ibid., pp. 483–5.

34
. Ibid., p. 490.

35
. Ibid., pp. 490–1.

36
. Ibid., pp. 176, 360–1.

37
. Ibid., pp. 286, 293; AN 1127, fo. 111.

38
. Rav. V, p. 493.

39
. SS (Norton) I, pp. 43–4; Segur,
Tapissier,
p. 15.

40
. PRO SP 78/141/fo. 136.

41
. Segur,
Luxembourg … et … Orange,
p. 536.

42
. Ibid., pp. 287, 212.

43
. Rowlands, p. 55; Spanheim, pp. 334–5.

44
. SS (Truc) III, pp. 753–4; Primi Visconti, p. 145.

45
. BN Mss Clairambault 1192, fo. 22.

46
. Rav. V, pp. 495–501.

47
. Primi Visconti, p. 144; SS (Norton) I, pp. 43–4.

48
. Rav. V, pp. 501–2.

49
. Scott-Stevenson I, p. 255.

50
. Rav. V, pp. 501–2.

51
. Ibid., VI, pp. 3–7.

52
. Ibid., pp. 18–19.

53
. Ibid., pp. 19–20.

54
. Ibid., pp. 31–6.

55
. L. Racine, p. 42.

56
. Ibid., p. 69.

57
. Ibid., p. 70; Lacretelle, p. 80.

58
. Rav. VI, pp. 50–3.

59
. Lacretelle, p. 97.

60
. Ibid., p. 221.

61
. Rav. VI, p. 95.

62
. Ibid., p. 25.

63
. Ibid., V, pp. 407–9, 426.

64
. Ibid., VI, pp. 55–7.

65
. Ibid., p. 25.

66
. Ibid., p. 58.

67
. Ibid., p. 67.

7: A Court in Chaos

1
. For a description of her death see Lafayette,
Histoire de Madame,
pp. 190–208.

2
. Shelmerdine, p. 120.

3
. Saint-Maurice I, p. 455.

4
. Ibid., p. 453; Fabre, pp. 133, 198–9.

5
. Shelmerdine, p. 114; Saint-Maurice I, p. 485; Scott-Stevenson II, p. 124.

6
. Shelmerdine, p. 123; SS (Truc) I, pp. 923–5.

7
. Marchesseau, pp. 64–8; Fabre, p. 164; John Rohl, Martin Warren & David Hunt,
Purple Secret
(1998), p. 193.

8
. Sourches I, p. 16; Saint-Maurice I, p. 88; Patin III, p. 787.

9
. Bussy IV, pp. 124, 137.

10
.
Mercure Galant,
January 1680.

11
. Rouben, pp. 163–4; Rav. VI, pp. 115, 117.

12
. Ibid., pp. 120–3.

13
. Ibid., pp. 96–7.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Sév. VI, pp. 213, 217–18.

16
. Segur,
Tapissier,
p. 76.

17
. Sév. VI, p. 214.

18
. Motteville III, p. 116; Lafayette,
op. cit.,
p. 55.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Magne, pp. 157, 162.

21
. Ibid., p. 311; Saint-Maurice I, pp. 405, 426; ibid., II, pp. 471–2, 573.

22
. Saint-Maurice II, pp. 554, 581.

23
. Lafayette,
op. cit.,
p. 136; Bussy V, pp. 50–1.

24
. Sév. VI, p. 226; Bussy V, pp. 50–1; Rav. VI, p. 131.

25
. Sourches I, pp. 134–5n; La Fare, p. 213; Rav. VI, p. 103; Sév. VI, p. 231.

26
. Rav. VI, pp. 132, 193.

27
. Primi Visconti, p. 289; Rav. VI, p. 147; Choisy I, p. 224; Sév. VI, p. 282; Primi Visconti, p. 291.

28
. La Fare, p. 213; Primi Visconti, pp. 288–9.

29
. Bussy V, p. 59; Rav. VI, p. 138.

30
. Scott-Stevenson I, p. 98.

31
. Bussy V, p. 45.

32
. Primi Visconti, p. 287; Dangeau III, p. 49.

33
. SS (Norton) III, p. 281.

34
. Courtois, p. 159.

35
. Sourches I, p. 125; René, p. 230.

36
. Ibid., pp. 500–1.

37
. SS (Truc) II, pp. 1200–2.

38
. René, p. 243.