In the wake of the sensational trial and execution of Madame de Brinvilliers, Paris was scandalized by the discovery of an occult underground believed to be responsible for a number of poisonings of people great and small alike. In Part One of this multi-part episode, I detailed the first few arrests made in the latter part of the 1670s, those associated with Madeleine de la Grange, with Louis de Vanens, and with Marie Vigoreaux and Marie Bossé. With the discovery of another woman's name, the arrests were soon to cross into some of the highest in the land.
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Opening music: from https://filmmusic.io"Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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SOURCES
Duramy, Benedetta Faedi. “Women and Poisons in 17th Century France,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 87:2 (2012).
Funck-Brentano, Frantz. Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV (translated by George Maidment). London: Duckworth and Co., 1901.
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.
Summers, Montague. The Geography of Witchcraft. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978 (repr. of 1927 edition).
Williams, H. Noel. Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
http://partylike1660.com/catherine-monvoisin-fortune-teller-sorceress-and-poisoner/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ground-glass-deadly/
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