| PAGE | | MARIE MADELEINE DE BRINVILLIERS— | | I. | Her Life, | 1 | | II. | Her Trial, | 36 | | III. | Her Death, | 76 | | THE POISON DRAMA AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV— | | I. | The Sorceresses— | | The Dinner of La Vigoreux, | 117 | | Sorcery in the Seventeenth Century, | 121 | | The Practices of the Witches, | 128 | | The Alchemists, | 133 | | La Voisin, | 144 | | The Magician Lesage, | 159 | | The ‘Chambre Ardente,’ | 163 | | Louis XIV and the Poison Affair, | 180 | | II. | Madame de Montespan, | 187 | | III. | A Magistrate—Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie, | 265 | | THE DEATH OF ‘MADAME,’ | 313 | | RACINE AND THE POISON AFFAIR, | 346 | | ‘LA DEVINERESSE,’ | 361 | | INDEX: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, V, W | 375 |
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