The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV Page 56
* Ravaisson dates this encounter 31 January 1678. However, several witnesses state that the Marquis de La Vallière was present and since he died in October 1676, the meeting must have occurred prior to that.
* Lesage must have been lying about this because when this meeting happened the siege of Philippsburg had not yet taken place.
* La Reynie mistakenly thought it had happened in 1676.
* Both Ravaisson and Funck-Brentano believed that Mme de Montespan was guilty. Of more recent authors, Georges Couton thinks it ‘probable’ that she was present during black masses when babies were sacrificed.
* In L’Affaire des Poisons Petitfils nevertheless argues that the accusations against Mlle des Oeillets were well-founded.