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Authors: Anne Somerset
Tags: #History, #France, #Royalty, #17th Century, #Witchcraft, #Executions, #Law & Order, #Courtesans, #Nonfiction
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (75 page)
Boyer (fortune-teller)
Brayer, M.
Briancourt, Jean-Baptiste
Bribach, Mlle de
Brinvilliers, Antoine Gobelin, Marquis de
Brinvilliers, Marie Madeleine Gobelin, Marquise de: executed; poisons father and brothers; family and background; affair with and children by Sainte-Croix; on Sainte-Croix’s source of poison supply; and Glaser’s poisons; finances; considers poisoning sister; demands Sainte-Croix’s casket; flees country; and interrogation of La Chausée; arrested in Liege and returned to Paris; confession; denies guilt; affair with Briancourt; interrogated and found guilty; sees religious confessor; suffers water torture; admits to crimes; Pennautier’s dealings with; effect of case on France; and witchcraft; effect of case on La Reynie; sexual misconduct
Brissac, Albert de Grillet, Marquis de
Brissac, Henri-Albert de Cossé, Duc de
Brissart, Marie, Duchesse de
brodequins
(torture instrument)
Broglio, M. de
Brunet, M. (first husband of Mme Philbert)
Brunet, Mme
see
Philbert, Mme
Bussy, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de: as source; and court debauchery; on Louis; on Louis’ relations with Mme de Montespan; hostility to Mme de Montespan; on Louis’ prejudices; expects downfall of Mme de Montespan; and Mme de Ludres; on rivalry between Mme de Montespan and Mlle de Fontanges; on Louis’ declining interest in Mlle de Fontanges; on Mme de Maintenon’s relations with Louis; and belief in witchcraft; and arrests of poison suspects; on death of Princesse de Monaco; on Louis’ treatment of Mme de Polignac; disbelieves Louis’ remark on Duchesse de Bouillon; laments arrest of members of court; on Mme de Grondeuse; on lenient treatment of Chevalier Colbert and friends; on trial of Mme Leféron; on Mme de Dreux’s trial; on acquittal of Luxembourg; on Louis’ forgiving Luxembourg; on withdrawal to convents of Louis’ mistresses; on lack of trust following poison accusations
Cadelan, Pierre
Canilhac, Charles Timoléon de Beaufort-Montboissier, Marquis de
Canilhac, Marie, Marquise de (
later
Mme de Broglie)
Carada, Anne
Carignan, Marie de Bourbon-Soissons, Princesse de
Carré, Mme
Cato (Mme de Montespan’s servant)
Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite le Valois de Vilette de Marçay, Comtesse de
Cesar, Père
Cessac, Louis de Guilhem de Castelnau, Marquis de
Chambelan (Breton)
Chambre Ardente
(
Chambre d’Arsenal
): special commission sits in; first session (10 April 1679); Mme Desmaretz attends; and la Voisin trial; Maréchal de La Ferté at; Mme de Sévigné on; Louis orders continuation of; activities and achievements; and Luxembourg investigation; suspended; Colbert considers dissolving; and Louis’ orders to end enquiries; reassembles and passes judgements; and further death plot against Louis; disbanded; records burned; reconvened (1689); effect on France’s international reputation; Louvois dominates; Louis supports
Chamillart, Michel de
Champmesle, Marie
Chanfrain, Jeanne
Chapelain, Magdelaine: Mme de Montespan meets; Boucher works with; arrested; and la Filastre; background and career; accuses Duchesse de Vivonne; allegedly works for Mme de Montespan; and murder plot against Mme de Fontanges; imprisoned for life; death
Chapelle, Abbé
Chapon, Mathurin
Charles I, King of England
Charles II, King of Spain
Charpy, Abbé
Chartres, Duc de
see
Orléans, Philippe II, Duc d’
Chartres, Françoise-Marie, Duchesse de (
earlier
Mlle de Blois; Louis/Mme de Montespan’s daughter)
Chasteuil, François-Galaup de (‘the author’)
Chelle, Abbess of
see
Rousselle, Catherine de
Cheron, Anne
child sacrifice
see
infanticide
Choisy, François Timoléon, Abbé de
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Clagny, near Versailles
Clairambault, Louise Françoise Bouthillier de Chavigny, Maréchale de
Clermont, Charles Henri, Comte de
Clermont-Tonnerre, François de, Bishop of Noyon
Coislin, Pierre de, Bishop of Orléans
Colbert, Antoine-Martin, Chevalier
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste: supports Pennautier; as Controller-General of Finance; encourages building; on Louis XIV’s insistence on knowing all; and La Vallière’s child by Louis; and Mortemart’s appointment as Governor of Paris; Louis requests to help Mme de Montespan; attempts to reconcile Louis and Mme de Montespan; and Louis’ support for police; rivalry with Louvois; and rumours of alchemy; protests to Louis over Luxembourg’s exclusion; and Rouen witchcraft case; and trial of Mme de La Grange; and case of Mmes Vigoreux and Bosse; Luxembourg’s relations with; death threats against; disbelieves Marie Montvoisin; dossier on Mme de Montespan and Mme de Vivonne sent to; forms marriage alliance with Mme de Montespan; scepticism over poison plot; proposes dissolving
Chambre Ardente;
Louis seeks advice from; and Louis’ view of Mme de Montespan’s guilt; examines records of
Chambre Ardente;
and damaging effect of
Chambre Ardente
Condé, Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de (‘Grand Condé’)
Conti, Louis Armand I de Bourbon, Prince de
Conti, Marie-Anne, Princesse de (
earlier
Mlle de Blois; Louis/La Vallière’s daughter)
Corneille, Pierre
Corneille, Thomas, and Donneau de Visé:
The Divineress
(play)
Cottard, Mme
Cotton, Jacques Joseph
Coulanges, Marie Angélique Du Gué, Mme de
court (royal)
see
Louis XIV; Versailles
Courville (client of la Chapelain)
Cousserans, Vicomte de
Coventry, Henry
Créqui, Charles III, Duc de
Créqui, François de Blanchefort de Bonne, Maréchal de
currency and coinage
Dalibert (business partner of Saint-Laurens)
Dalmas, P.
Dangeau, Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de
Dauphin
see
Louis, Dauphin
Dauphine
see
Marie-Anne of Bavaria
Davot, Gilles
Debray, Étienne
Delabarre, Perrine
Delaporte, Marguerite: profession; arrested; Lesage denounces; and la Voisin; imprisoned for life
Deschault, Jacques
Deslauriers, la
Desloges, Louison
Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean
Desmaretz, Mme (client of Lesage)
Desnoyers, Étienne
devil, the: belief in
divination
see
fortune-telling
divineress: as term
Dreux d’Aubray, Antoine (Mme de Brinvilliers’ father)
Dreux, Mme Françoise de; tried and admonished; Mme Joly denounces as poisoner; tried in absence and banished; as potential poisoner
Dreux, Philippe de
Drodelot, Aymée
Duchamp, Père
Duparc (lawyer)
Du Parc, Thérèse
Dupin (businessman)
Duplessis, Claude
Dusoulcye, Louise
Dutch, the
see
Holland
Effiat, Antoine Coiffier-Ruzé, Marquis d’
Effita, M. d’ (Criminal Lieutenant of Paris)
Elboeuf, Marie Marguerite Ignace de Lorraine, Mlle d’
Elias, Norbert
Enghien, Henri Jules de Bourbon, Duc d’
Estrades, Godefroy, Maréchal d’
Eugène François of Savoy, Prince
Exili, Egidio
Faurye, Jean
Felibien, André
Ferry, M.
Ferry, Mme
Feuquières, Antoine de Pas, Marquis de: Lesage’s allegations against; serves Luxembourg; character; enmity with Louvois; served with summons; interrogated and discharged; military career; and Louis’ support of prosecutions; letters to fortune-teller; as client of Mme de La Ville; lost account of experiences before
Chambre
Fieubet, Gaspard de
Filastre, Françoise: detained and interrogated; and Mme de Vivonne; Princesse de Tingry patronises; la Bergerot accuses of making pact with devil; birth of child; and Mlle de Fontanges; la Chapelain accuses; and Mme de Montespan; La Reynie investigates; tried, tortured and sentenced to be burnt; withdraws allegations; Louis considers testimony; use of testimony as evidence
Fontainebleau
Fontanges, Duchesse de (Marie-Angélique de Scorailles): as Louis’ mistress; created duchess; health decline; loses favour with Louis; Mme de Maintenon and; la Filastre seeks employment with; la Voisin and Romani approach; murder plot against; la Filastre denies wishing to harm; death and autopsy
Fontet, Marie, Marquise de
Fontrevault, Abbess of
see
Rochechouart, Marie Madeleine Gabrielle de
Forne, M.
fortune-telling and divination
Fouilloux, Bénigne de
see
Alluye, Marquise d’
Fouquet, Nicolas
France: judicial procedures; wars; status in Europe
France devenue Italienne, La
(novel)
France Galante, La
(novel)
Funck-Brentano, Frantz
Galet, Philippe
galleys: as punishment
gambling
Gascon (servant)
Gassilly, Comte de
Gazette de France
Glaser, Christophe
Gobelin, Abbé
Gobelin, Antoine
see
Brinvilliers, Marquis de
Gobelins tapestry factories
gold
see
alchemy
Gontier, M.
Grabcey, Mme de
Gramont, Antoine II, Maréchal Duc de
Gramont, Elizabeth, Comtesse de (
née
Hamilton)
Gramont, Mlle de
Gramont, Philibert, Comte de
Grancey, Mlle de
Grancey, Mme de
Grandet, François
Grondeuse, Mme de
Guerchi, Mlle de
Guesdon, Mme
Guibourg, Abbé Étienne: arrested; performs black masses and child sacrifices; Mme de Montespan and; pact with devil; Marie Montvoisin on; recites pact from memory; and la Filastre’s testimony; confrontation with Marie Montvoisin; identifies Mlle des Oeillets; in Vincennes; not subjected to torture; denounces Mme Joly; reports attempt to kill Colbert; on Maillard; imprisoned for life; shares prison cell with Lemaire; death
Guiche, Armand de Gramont, Comte de
Hamelin, Jean (‘La Chausée’)
Hannyvel, Chevalier de
Hanover, Electress of
see
Sophia
Harlay, Achille de (Attorney-General)
Harlay, François de, Archbishop of Paris
Hébert (curé at Versailles)
Hébert, Mme
Henault (priest)
Henri III, King of France
Henri IV, King of France
Herault (tavern keeper)
hoca
(game)
Holland: war with France
homosexuality
Hostel, Nicholas d’
Huet, Jean
infanticide and child sacrifice
Italy: supposed expertise in poisons
Jacob, la (divineress)
James, Duke of York (
later
James II of England)
Jemme (fortune-teller)
Joly, Marguerite
Journal des Savants
La Brosse, Chevalier de
La Bruyère, Jean de
La Chaboissière (Jean Barthominat)
La Chaise, Père
La Chausée
see
Hamelin, Jean
