Princes and Poisoners
by Frantz Funck-Brentano
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About this eBook
- Author
- Funck-Brentano, Frantz, 1862-1947
- Title
- Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Poisoners
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43238
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43238
- Release Date
- July 17, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Princes and Poisoners STUDIES OF THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
- 2.PREFATORY NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.MARIE MADELEINE DE BRINVILLIERS — I. HER LIFE — II. HER TRIAL — III. HER DEATH
- 6.THE POISON DRAMA AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV — I. THE SORCERESSES — The Dinner of La Vigoureux. — 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
- 7.THE DEATH OF ‘MADAME' [12] — I — II — III — IV
- 8.RACINE AND THE POISONS QUESTION
- 9.THE ‘DEVINERESSE’
- 10.INDEX
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