After the imprisonment and eventual execution of Madame de Brinvilliers, a network of murderers masquerading as fortune-tellers began to be revealed throughout Paris. Were these people actually guilty of widespread poisonings? Or was it merely a witch hunt?
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
SOURCES
Bodin, Jean (Randy A. Scott, translator). The Demon-Mania of Witches (originally published as De la Démonomanie des Sorciers, 1580). Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1995.
Duramy, Benedetta Faedi. “Women and Poisons in 17th Century France,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 87:2 (2012).
Funck-Brentano, Frantz (George Maidment, translator). Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV. London: Duckworth and Co., 1901.
Guazzo, Francesco Maria (Montague Summers, translator). Compendium Maleficarum: The Montague Summers Edition. New York: Dover, 1988.
Lynn, W.T. “The Comet of 1664.” The Observatory 31 (1908).
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing. Popular History of France, from the Earliest Period to the Death of Louis XIV. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.
Somerset, Anne. The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism in the Court of King Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
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http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2012/03/marie-bosse-french-serial-killer-1679.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Vanens
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