The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (71 page)

18
. Ibid., pp. 393–4.

19
. Ibid., p. 395.

20
. Ibid., p. 393.

21
. Ibid., pp. 349–52.

22
. Ibid., pp. 375–6.

23
. Ibid., p. 376.

24
. Colbert VI, pp. 419–20.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Rav. VI, p. 384.

27
. Ibid., pp. 395–6.

28
. Ibid., pp. 419–36.

29
. See Fouquier,
Causes Célèbres IV, Les Assassins de Henri IV: Ravaillac.

30
. Rav. VI, pp. 426–7.

31
. Ibid., pp. 428–9.

32
. Ibid., p. 421.

33
. Ibid., p. 434.

34
. Ibid., pp. 398–9.

35
. Ibid., p. 402.

36
. Ibid.

37
. Bussy V, pp. 211, 176–7.

38
. Decker, p. 177.

39
. Montpensier IV, pp. 424, 439; Bussy V, p. 229.

40
. Rav. VI, p. 346.

41
. Ibid., pp. 419, 459.

42
. Primi Visconti, p. 278.

43
. Colbert VI, pp. 67–8, 422–3.

44
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 233; Rousset, part one, II, pp. 437–64; Primi Visconti, p. 213; Bussy IV, p. 386.

45
. Primi Visconti, p. 210; Montpensier IV, p. 515.

46
. Colbert VI, p. 415; for Colbert’s memo, see Colbert VI, pp. 414–22; for Duplessis’s memo see Colbert VI, pp. 407–14.

47
. Colbert VI, pp. 67, 423.

48
. See e.g. Rav VI, pp. 356, 191, 254–5, 311.

49
. Ibid., p. 384.

50
. Colbert VI, p. 418.

51
. Ibid., pp. 417–18.

52
. Choisy I, pp. 90–1.

53
. Colbert VI, pp. 423, 68.

54
. Ibid., p. 424.

55
. Rav. VI, p. 347.

56
. Ibid., p. 458.

57
. Ibid., pp. 454–9; also BN Mss Français 7608, fo. 364.

10: The End of the Affair

1
. PRO SP 78/143, fos. 82v–83v.

2
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 402–4.

3
. Rav. VI, pp. 486–7; Laulan, p. 840; Petitfils,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 217; Laulan, p. 840.

4
. Primi Visconti, p. 210; Bussy V, p. 259.

5
. Brunet I, p. 199; Caylus, p. 32; Spanheim, p. 82.

6
. Rav. VI, p. 496.

7
. Ibid., V, p. 469; Colbert VI, p. 429.

8
. BN Mss Français 7608, fos. 392–3.

9
. Rav. VI, pp. 462, 481.

10
. Ibid., p. 246; ibid., VII, p. 64.

11
. Ibid.; ibid., VI, pp. 465–7, 460–1.

12
. BN Mss Clairambault 986, fos. 457, 461; Rav. VII, pp. 80, 238–9, 168.

13
. Ibid., pp. 64–70.

14
. BN Mss Clairambault 986, fos. 262, 267; Rav. VI, p. 496; AN 1127, fos. 147, 149.

15
. Rav. VI, pp. 413, 403.

16
. Ibid., pp. 406, 482.

17
. Ibid., pp. 467–9, 485.

18
. Ibid., pp. 471–9.

19
. Ibid., p. 495.

20
. SS (Truc) II, p. 294; Sourches I, p. 88.

21
. Rav. VII, p. 17.

22
. Ibid., pp. 17–18.

23
. Ibid., p. 83.

24
. Ibid., pp. 51–4, 62.

25
. Ibid., pp. 44–5.

26
. Ibid., p. 12.

27
. BN Mss Clairambault 986, fo. 179; Rav VII, pp. 23–7.

28
. Ibid., pp. 28–9.

29
. Ibid., p. 32.

30
. Ibid., pp. 34–41.

31
. Ibid., p. 80.

32
. Ibid., pp. 83–8.

33
. Ibid., p. 88.

34
. Ibid., p. 92; Sourches I, p. 88.

35
. Rav. VII, pp. 20, 7–8, 34.

36
. Sourches I, p. 88.

37
. SS (Truc) II, p. 294.

38
. Rav. VII, pp. 98–100.

39
. Ibid., pp. 102, 105.

40
. Ibid., pp. 109–10.

41
. Ibid., pp. 106–8.

42
. Sourches I, p. 125.

43
. BN Mss Français 7608, fos. 392–4, 376.

44
. Rav. VII, pp. 113, 116.

45
. Ibid., p. 388.

46
. BN Mss Clairambault 986, fo. 257; Rav. VII, pp. 7–8.

47
. Ibid., p. 134; Lemoine,
Les des Oeillets,
p. 42; Petrtfils,
L’Affaire des Poisons,
p. 177.

48
. Rav. VI, p. 436.

49
. Lemoine,
op. cit.,
pp. 42–3.

50
. Rav. VII, pp. 111, 96, 149.

51
. BN Mss Clairambault 1192, fo. 22; Rav. VI, p. 389; AN 1127, fo. 107.

52
. Rav. VII, pp. 150, 164, 169.

53
. AN 1127, fo. 31; Rav. VII, p. 126.

54
. See Rav. VI, pp. 465, 470.

55
. BN Mss Français 7608, fo. 384; Rav. VII, p. 97.

56
. BN Mss Français 7608, fo. 378.

57
. Rav. VII, pp. 112, 115, 115–16.

58
. BN Mss Français 7608, fos. 402–9; Rav VII, pp. 118–19.

59
. Ibid., pp. 112–13.

60
. Ibid., pp. 122, 120, 186.

61
. Ibid., pp. 136, 116, 149.

62
. Ibid., p. 119.

63
. Ibid., pp. 122–3.

64
. Ibid., p. 124.

65
. Ibid., p. 127.

66
. Ibid., p. 138.

67
. Ibid., pp. 128, 131, 136, 149.

68
. Ibid., p. 187.

11: Conclusion

1
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 413; Rav. VI, p. 457.

2
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 389.

3
. Spanheim, p. 87; Maintenon,
Lettres
II, p. 395.

4
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 264–5.

5
. Dangeau I, p. 88; Spanheim, p. 80; Choisy I, p. 208.

6
. Maintenon,
Lettres
II, pp. 401, 380.

7
. Forster, pp. 40–41; Montpensier IV, pp. 498–9; Caylus, p. 141.

8
. Cordelier, p. 146.

9
. Spanheim, p. 88; Lavallée II, p. 486; Maintenon,
Lettres
V, p. 377.

10
. Dangeau I, p. 265; Maintenon,
Lettres
III, p. 102; Scott-Stevenson II, p. 19.

11
. Spanheim, p. 87; Caylus, p. 176.

12
. Dangeau I, p. 77; Sourches I, pp. 385–7.

13
. Ibid.; Dangeau I, pp. 337–40.

14
. Sourches II, p. 91; Dangeau III, p. 276.

15
. Sourches III, pp. 365–6.

16
. Dangeau III, p. 325.

17
. Ibid., p. 483; Caylus, p. 176.

18
. Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 331, 286; Sév. X, p. 384.

19
. Dangeau XI, p. 284; SS (Norton) I, p. 321.

20
. SS (Truc) II, pp. 862–4; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
p. 348.

21
. Ibid., pp. 344–5.

22
. SS (Truc) II, p. 863; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 226–7.

23
. SS (Truc) II, p. 866.

24
. Dangeau XI, pp. 378–9; Clement,
Mme de Montespan,
pp. 337, 325; Decker, p. 229.

25
. Saint-Germain,
La Reynie,
p. 338.

26
. Sév. VII, p. 90; Primi Visconti, p. 282: SS (Truc) I, pp. 647–8.

27
. Colbert VI, p. 424.

28
. Rav. VII, pp. 182–3.

29
. Ibid., VI, p. 486; Sourches I, p. 80.

30
. Rav. VI, p. 399; La Fare, p. 209.

31
. Colbert VI, p. 428.

32
. Segur,
Tapissier,
p. 10; Primi Visconti, pp. 292–3; Bussy V, p. 69.

33
. Ibid., p. 173.

34
. Sourches III, p. 40.

35
. Trevor-Roper, pp. 15, 47; Briggs,
Witches and Neighbours,
pp. 8, 363.

36
. Ibid., pp. 390, 57; see
Daily Telegraph,
23.03.02:
Mail on Sunday
20.10.02.

37
. Gibson, p. 137.

38
. Coynart, pp. 273–80.

39
. Voltaire,
Works,
ed. Morley XII, part ii, p. 167; Sourches III, pp. 110–11.

40
. Dangeau III, p. 360.

41
. Cabanes & Nass, p. 177; Dionis, pp. 86–7; Sourches III, pp. 436–7.

42
. Scott-Stevenson I, pp. 100–1; Forster, p. 174; Brunet II, p. 25.

43
. Scott-Stevenson II, p. 42.

44
. Ibid., p. 51; Amiel, p. 317; Kroll, p. 154.

45
. Coynart, pp. 274–5.

46
. Colbert VI, p. 407.

47
. Cruysse,
Lettres Françaises,
pp. 136, 138.

48
. Mandrou,
Possession et Sorcellerie,
p. 279.

49
. Ibid., pp. 285–6. 290, 306, 325, 285–6.

50
. Coynart, pp. 149, 155–6; Mandrou,
op. cit.,
p. 308.

51
. Ibid., pp. 280–1.

52
. Sév. VI, pp. 225, 272.