Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

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PREFATORY NOTE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

MARIE MADELEINE DE BRINVILLIERS I. HER LIFE

THE POISON DRAMA AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV I. THE SORCERESSES The Dinner of La Vigoureux.

THE DEATH OF 'MADAME' [12]

RACINE AND THE POISONS QUESTION

THE 'DEVINERESSE'

INDEX

PRINCES AND POISONERS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR

LEGENDS OF THE BASTILLE. By Frantz Funck-Brentano. With an Introduction by Victorien Sardou. Translated by George Maidment. 1899. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 6s.

Contents.I. The Archives; II. History of the Bastille; III. Life in the Bastille; IV. The Man in the Iron Mask; V. Men of Letters in the Bastille; VI. Latude; VII. The Fourteenth of July.

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PORTRAIT OF GABRIEL NICOLAS DE LA REYNIE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL OF POLICE (Engraved by Van Schuppen, after the painting by Mignard)
PORTRAIT OF GABRIEL NICOLAS DE LA REYNIE
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL OF POLICE
(Engraved by Van Schuppen, after the painting by Mignard)

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Princes and Poisoners

STUDIES OF THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV

BY

FRANTZ FUNCK-BRENTANO

TRANSLATED BY

GEORGE MAIDMENT


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