Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Nonfiction, History, France

• Author: Frantz Funck-Brentano, George Maidment, Translator
• ISBN: 1230000152630
• Publisher: VolumesOfValue
• Publication: July 18, 2013
• Language: English

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS
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 Vigoreux,
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—Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie,
THE DEATH OF ‘MADAME,’
RACINE AND THE POISON AFFAIR,
‘LA DEVINERESSE,’
INDEX