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	Poison Affair - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		POISON AFFAIR [Poison Affair] in French history, scandal implicating a number of prominent persons at the court of King Louis XIV.
		Some of the quack practitioners undoubtedly also sold poison (called "inheritance powders" at the time); after their arrest they furnished the police with lists of their clients, who often were guilty merely of having their palms read or of buying an aphrodisiac, and accused them of complicity in their crimes.
		The affair was symptomatic of the witchcraft trials of the period throughout Europe and in New England; however, the judicial investigation was conducted generally with far more regularity and far less hysteria than elsewhere.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-poisona1f.html (526 words)

	Poison affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Poison Affair (affaire des poisons or Affair of the Poisons) was a murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV.
		She was forced to confess, sentenced to death and on July 17 was tortured with the water cure (forced to drink sixteen pints of water), beheaded and burned at a stake.
		Monvoisin was sentenced to death for witchcraft and poisoning, and burned at a stake on February 22, 1680.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poison_affair (647 words)

	The Affair of the Poisons Anne Somerset
		The Affair of the Poisons - Anne Somerset
		Synopsis from AMAZONThe 'Affair of the Poisons' was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' and which 'horrified the whole of Europe' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of King Louis XIV in the late 17th century.
		A special court was instituted to judge cases of poisoning and witchcraft, and the poison epidemic came to an end in France.This bizarre witchhunt, which embroiled the gilded denizens of Versailles with the most sordid dregs of Paris society, remains both a fascinating enigma and an utterly compelling story.
	www.recessioncamp.com /The-Affair-of-the,i220033190644,c163.html (206 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Affair of the Poisons: Livres: Anne Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Amazon.fr : The Affair of the Poisons: Livres: Anne Somerset
		The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV.
		Convicted of conspiring with her adulterous lover to poison her father and brothers in order to secure the family fortune, the marquise was the first member of the noble class to fall.
	www.amazon.fr /Affair-Poisons-Anne-Somerset/dp/0753817845 (737 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment
		Anne Somerset's scrupulous and grisly account of the Affair of the Poisons in 17th-century France is an instructive tale of state paranoia.
		The Affair of the Poisons began in 1676 with the trial of an enthusiastic poisoner, the Marquise de Brinvilliers.
		An obsession with poisoning took hold of the court of Louis XIV – a world of vicious sycophants and aristocrats who were bored enough to believe anything.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/09/14/bosom214.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/09/14/bomain.html (846 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2004381485 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Publisher description for The Affair of the Poisons : murder, infanticide and satanism at the court of Louis XIV / Anne Somerset.
		The Affair of the Poisons, as it was known, was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' and which 'horrified the whole of Europe' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of the Sun King, King Louis XIV in the late 17th century.
		The affair was sympomatic of the witchcraft trials of the period throughout Europe.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/orion051/2004381485.html (406 words)

	Lynn Wood Mollenauer: Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France
		Hardback: $70.00 SH Paperback: $25.00 SH The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century.
		The purchasers of the powders gave the affair its notoriety, for the scandal extended into the most exalted ranks of the French court.
		Mollenauer adroitly uses the Affair of the Poisons to uncover the hidden forms of power that men and women of all social classes invoked to achieve their goals.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02915-3.html (306 words)

	New Statesman - Dangerous liaisons
		The Affair of the Poisons: murder, infanticide and Satanism at the court of Louis XIV
		Anne Somerset's tale of poison, alchemy, Satanism and stupidity in the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, at Versailles and in Paris towards the end of the 17th century makes it clear that the human race has improved with time.
		More than 300 suspects were arrested in the "Affair of the Poisons"; 34 were executed in the usual ways and two died under torture.
	www.newstatesman.com /200309150047 (816 words)

	Louis XIV's dodgy dossier \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The affair had its victims, who were tortured and executed with the period's customary grisly efficiency.
		The initial evidence of a plot to poison him was thin.
		There was also the backdrop from 1676 of the sensational trial, conviction and execution of the Marquise de Brinvilliers, a noblewoman who apparently poisoned three members of her family.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1039917,00.html (718 words)

	Poisons — Infoplease.com
		poison - poison, any agent that may produce chemically an injurious or deadly effect when introduced into...
		mushroom poisoning - mushroom poisoning, fungal poisoning caused by ingestion of certain mushrooms (fungal organisms),...
		poisonous plant - poisonous plant, any plant possessing a property injurious to man or animal.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0197820.html (233 words)

	The Books: Athénaïs by Lisa Hilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a lover, she risked the disgrace of double adultery to conduct an affair that scandalized Europe; as a patron, she supported many of the leaders of the cultural renaissance; as a mother, she is the ancestor of most of the royal houses of Europe.
		It was not until the Affair of the Poisons, a bizarre witch hunt which uncovered conspiracy in the highest echelons of the nobility, that Athénaïs's hold on the King and court faltered.
		Though the mystery remains unsolved, Athénaïs's implication in the sinister dealings of sorcerers and poisoners caused a fall from grace almost as precipitous as her rise.
	www.twbookmark.com /jrun/books/67/0316084905/index.html (623 words)

	Marquise de Montespan
		The Marquis de Montespan, who displayed his resentment, was exiled to Guyenne in 1668 and judicially separated from his wife in 1674 (he died in 1701).
		Affair of the Poisons came to light in 1679, Mme de Montespan was alleged to have been from 1667 a customer of the witch La Voisin.
		Notwithstanding this affair, Mme de Montespan long remained at court, though the King transferred his affections to Mme de Maintenon.
	members.tripod.com /versailles4/id27.htm (328 words)

	Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was associated with the Affair of the Poisons, although she was never conclusively implicated.
		She was alleged to have received from the sorceress love powders concocted of abominable ingredients for Louis XIV, and in 1666 the "fl mass" was alleged to have been said by the priest Etienne Guibourg over her with the usual horrible ceremonial.
		It is set during the Affair of the Poisons and is written from the viewpoint of Marion, one of Mme de Montespan's maids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marquise_de_Montespan (1265 words)

	The Splendors of Versailles--Teachers' Guide Supplement
		During the Affair of the Poisons (1679), Montespan was accused of participating in fl masses and buying potions from the poisoner, La Voisin.
		Marie Antoinette: (1755-1793) After providing four royal heirs, Queen Marie Antoinette was very unhappy with royal life so she had the hamlet built to allow her a place to escape the frills and confines of courtly life.
		Due to affairs early on in her marriage, the diamond necklace scandal, and her own idiosyncrasies, she fell from favor with the common people and was tried, convicted and put to death via the guillotine.
	splendors-versailles.org /StudentGuide/Characters (1839 words)

	Sugarzine : Books
		Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset tells the insane and true tale of Madame de Brinviliers, who in 1676 poisoned her father and brothers because they disapproved of her lover.
		Nick Guest, a James scholar, starts off the story living in the house of one Thatcher's ministers and develops an unhealthy friendship with siblings.
		Guest, has his first homosexual affair with Leo- and before long the novel jumps a few years and Guest is no longer the innocent, but right in the thick of the wild gay lifestyle of London in the eighties.
	www.sugarzine.com /site_01.05/books.html (893 words)

	UNCW CAS: Department of History
		Professor Mollenauer’s research focuses on the court of Louis XIV, and her dissertation, The Politics of Poison: Criminals and Courtiers in the Affair of the Poisons, analyzes the greatest court scandal of the 17th century.
		From 1679 to 1682, the French crown investigated over 400 people--including Louis XIV’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court-- for an array of sensational crimes.
		Secrecy: Investigating the Affair of the Poisons, 1679-1682," is forthcoming in Historical Reflections.
	www.uncwil.edu /hst/about/faculty-mollenauer.html (138 words)

	algemeen, politiek etc. >> nieuw > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Affair of the Poisons, The - Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV * HB Ed.
		The Affair of the Poisons, as it was known, was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of the Sun King, King Louis XIV in the late 17th century.
		Birnbaum documents an episode in French history - the wave of anti-Semitism that gripped France in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair.
	www.naylerco.nl /contents/nl/d426.html (1053 words)

	Amazon.com: The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV: Books: Anne Somerset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The whole affair of the poisons caused a paranoia that turned a criminal investigation into a Salem Witch Hunt or better yet a grassy knoll conspiracy that reached into the highest level of government.
		"The Affair of the Poisons" relates how in 1680, Paris society was thrown into an uproar as details came to light of a rash of magical potions and poisons being circulated from the Paris underground into the highest ranks of the French high society.
		The Affair of the Poisons is a fascinating look into the strange world of the French court and the lengths one woman went to maintain her exalted status among the glittering yet hopelessly vain and self-destructive upper eschelon of French society.
	www.amazon.com /Affair-Poisons-Murder-Infanticide-Satanism/dp/0312330170 (1771 words)

	Poison Affair — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Poison Affair, in French history, scandal implicating a number of prominent persons at the court of King Louis XIV.
		[burning court], was instituted to judge cases of poisoning and witchcraft, and the poison epidemic came to an end in France.
		POISON PILL STRATEGY CHANGES: BINDING RESOLUTIONS ARE BOARDS' LATEST WEAPON OF CHOICE.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0839474.html (533 words)

	poisons - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "poisons" is defined.
		Example: "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"
		Phrases that include poisons: three poisons, affair of the poisons, economic poisons, fly poisons, index of poisons, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=poisons (147 words)

	La Maupin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As seems to be ever the case with her, she was victorious and captured the count's heart, and through him found her introduction to the Court and the town.
		Shielded by the marriage, their affair continued for a while, no more than another year, before the eager young Julie became too much for the Count to handle.
		His most famous case was the "Affair of the Poisons" a scandal of witchcraft and poisoning that spread all the way to the King's mistress.
	home.comcast.net /~brons/Maupin/LaMaupin.html (6182 words)

	Ex Libris Miscitonicii review
		It is the histories of these poisonous books that Joan Stanley has set out to codify in her pamphlet Ex Libris Miskatonici—A Catalogue of Selected Items from the Special Collections in the Miskatonic University Library.
		In the description of the infamous French Les Cultes des Goules, Stanley refers specifically to an aristocratic scandal called “"he affair of the poisons," which occurred at approximately the same time the foul book was supposedly written, and links the two.
		Again, there are delicious hints as to the actual nature of the affair dropped, enticing the reader to learn more about this fascinating piece of history.
	www.qusoor.com /Essays/librisl.htm (759 words)

	Alibris: Somerset
		The narrator of the story, a writer, tracks down Strickland as a favor to his wife, a society woman known for her interest in...
		Kitty Fane has an affair, and when her husband, a bacteriologist, finds out, he forces her to go with him to a cholera epidemic in the hopes that she will contract the disease and die.
		Once she is surrounded by all the desolation and death, Kitty begins to come to self-realization, and also learns how to love her husband.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Somerset (930 words)

	Louis XIV King of France
		At home the parliaments lost their traditional power to obstruct legislation; the judicial structure was reformed by the codes of civil procedure (1667) and criminal procedure (1669), although the overlapping and confusing laws were left untouched.
		In foreign affairs, the young Louis XIV launched the War of DEVOLUTION (1667-68) against the Spanish Netherlands, claiming that those provinces had "devolved" by succession to his Spanish wife rather than to her half brother CHARLES II, who had inherit ed the Spanish crown.
		The greatest beauty of her day, Athenais' life was lived publicly and sensationally until accusations of witchcraft forced her from power in the "Affair of the Poisons." (UK)
	www.awakening-healing.com /Sun_King.htm (2961 words)

	The Affair Of The Poisons Somerset, Anne- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		The Affair Of The Poisons Somerset, Anne- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
		The Affair Of The Poisons by Somerset, Anne
		Documents a series of high-level murders committed by women in France's seventeenth-century royal court who obtained poisons from Paris's underworld, discussing the investigative commission that exposed the killings and uncovered a threat to King Louis XIV.
	www.bookbyte.com /product.aspx?isbn=0312330170 (91 words)

	Blood & Ink
		To illustrate this point, two examples of surprising interplay between crime fact and fiction may be cited from the field of biblical literature.
		The contemporary "Affair of the Poisons," in which wholesale arsenic poisonings had been linked to witchcraft, made stage presentations of conjuration (even of scriptural origin) a risky enterprise.
		Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, the prince of poisoners, excused the murder of his young sister-in-law on the ground "that she had such thick ankles." But this purely aesthetic motive was doubtless alloyed by the fact that he had insured her life for £18,000.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/borowitzblood.htm (9275 words)

	Affair Jokes Uk - Related Articles @ Funny.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		three men at the gates of st peter wife affair
		dying is a very dull dreary affair and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it
		he loves me he loves me not affair radio
	www.funny.co.uk /keywords/affair-jokes-uk.html (195 words)

	Royalty.nu - French Royal History - Louis XIV, King of France
		The Affair of the Poisons by Frances Mossiker.
		The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset.
		The greatest beauty of her day, Athenais' life was lived publicly and sensationally until accusations of witchcraft forced her from power in the "Affair of the Poisons."
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/France/LouisXIV.html (3103 words)

	Household Poisons Products - Household Poisons Treatments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex
		Seductive Poison : A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple
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	PlanetPapers - Louis XIV, The Sun King
		His navy had become as as large as that of England and Holland.
		Friends had been implicated in the Affair of the Poisons, where eminent people had been accused of sorcery and murder.
		The seat of Government was transferred to Versailles in 1682.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/17.php (1040 words)

	Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: November 1, 2006
		It bears all the marks of delusion, but the person who told the story did not know about Robinson and the murder.
		The Paris chief of police, La Reynie, who investigated the affair of the poisons under Louis XIV, was similarly flummoxed.
		He couldn’t believe that there was an underworld of Satanists and poisoners at Versailles, but he had rational, corroborative evidence.
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