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Index
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Page numbers beginning with 247 refer to endnotes.
abortions:
C. Voison’s business in, 30–32, 34, 113, 159, 162, 163, 174, 186, 196, 197, 205, 215, 252
procedures for, 30–33, 147–48
Academy of Sciences, 16, 58
actors, as social outliers, 104–5
Affair of the Poisons investigation:
attempts to bring closure to, 223–25
author’s challenge in researching, 234–35
black leather storage box containing documentation from, 219–22, 224, 230, 232
burning of documents from, xxiii, 231, 245
chronology of, 243–45
Colbert’s role in, 221–24
covert nature of, xxiii, 168, 221, 224, 225, 227
disposition of La Reynie’s records of, 231–32
La Reynie’s personal documentation of, 231–38
La Reynie’s role in, 99–100, 117–20, 127–37, 140–41, 142, 145–48, 158–63, 164–69, 201–8, 209–16, 217–22, 224, 231, 236–37, 257, 261, 267, 268
Louis’s involvement in, 130, 136, 140, 177, 179–80, 182, 215–16, 219, 223, 224, 231, 265, 268
Louvois’s role in, 164, 165, 167, 168, 171–72, 177, 179–83, 187, 191–92, 204, 212, 215, 218–21, 224, 225, 236–37, 265, 267
nobility’s opposition to, 194
as officially closed by Louis, 227–28, 232
secret tribunal of, see Chambre Ardente
statistics for, 231
threats against Louis in, 123–24, 136–37, 139–40, 181, 201–8
Aire, 117
Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of, 58
Albret, César d’, 103
alchemy, 80, 132, 133, 166–67, 209
alcohol use, 30
alembics, 161
Allée Royale (Royal Path), 58
Alluye, marquise d’, 190, 196
Ameilhon, Hubert-Pascal, 233
amende honorable (honorable amends), 98, 171, 198, 214
Amyot, Monsieur, 136, 138, 140
Angers, 173
animal management, 21
animals, poison tests on, 86–87
Anne Marie Louise “Mademoiselle,” 253
Anne of Austria, queen regent of France, 17, 45–46, 49
antidotes, ingredients and preparation of, 70–71, 243
antimony, 33, 85
aphrodisiacs, 29–30, 32, 146–47, 210, 251
apothecaries, 69–72, 79, 85, 95, 129, 146, 147
La Reynie’s oversight of, 70–72
Argenson, Marc René de Voyer de Paulmy d’, 232, 247–48
Arsenal tribunal, see Chambre Ardente
arsenic, 33–34, 85, 97, 145, 146–48, 162, 177
regulation of, 228
arsenic sulfide, 33
astrology, astrologers, 28, 167, 235
astronomical observatory, at Versailles, 93
Aubigné, Françoise d’, see Maintenon, Madame de
Aubray, Antoine d’, 9, 11, 13, 257
poisoning death of, 77–79, 84, 89, 97, 98, 243
Aubray, Dreux d’, 7, 8–14
suspicious death of, 8, 12–14, 15, 18, 77, 79, 82, 89, 97, 98, 243
will of, 13, 249
Aubray, François d’, 11, 13, 257
poisoning death of, 77–79, 84, 89, 97, 98, 243
Aubray, Marie-Madeleine d’, see Brinvilliers, Marie-Madeleine, marquise de
autopsies:
on animals, 86
of count of Soissons, 183
of D’Aubray brothers, 79
of Fontanges, 208
of Henrietta Anne, 75
threat of, 271–72
Auvergne, 153
Barats, Antoinette de, La Reynie’s marriage to, 16–17, 59
Barbier (guard), 92
Bastille, 19, 117, 120, 121–23, 130, 168, 170, 171, 175, 197, 212, 249
documents archived at, 232–34, 276
evaluation and release of prisoners in, 225
nobility incarcerated in, 11, 171, 189–90, 192
ransacking and burning of, 233
beauty products, 29
Beauvais, 148
beggars, strategies of, 27, 35
beheading, execution by, 95, 99, 123, 141, 172–73
Belgium, 44, 59
Belle-Isle-sur-Mer, women prisoners retained at, 225
Bellier, Catherine (Cateau-la Borgnesse; One-Eyed Kate), 45, 206, 269
Belot, François, 34, 145
sentencing, torture, and execution of, 174–75
Benserade, Isaac de, 53
Besançon, citadel of, Lesage, Guibourg and Romani permanently imprisoned at, 225
Besmaux (warden of Bastille), 192
Bezons, Louis Bazin de, 169, 173, 184, 266–67
Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 233
black cats, superstitions of, 190
black Sabbaths, black masses, 112, 209–13, 218, 267
use of fetuses, newborns, and placentas in, 32, 210, 215, 221, 236, 237, 273–74
blasphemy, 191
bloodletting, 13, 74, 144
Bois de Boulogne, 122
Bonnart, Pierre, 193–94
Bordeaux, 16, 17
Boscher, Alexander, 75
Bosse, François, 130
Bosse, Marie, 126–33, 137, 143, 145, 166, 172, 173, 180, 183, 203
arrest of, 128–29, 142, 244
confession of, 171
daughter of, 225
entrapment scheme against, 127–28
execution of, 170–71, 172, 244
forensic examination of home of, 145–48
implicated by Voisin, 160–62, 178
interrogations of, 132–33, 147–48, 164, 167, 220, 261
joint interrogation of C. Voisin and, 162–63
remuneration for, 127, 131, 161, 162
torture of, 171
tried in Chambre Ardente, 170–71
Bossuet, Jean-Benigne, 75–76, 109, 229
Boucherat, Louis, 169, 184, 191, 192
Bouillon, duke of, 187, 189
Bouillon, Marie Anne, duchess of, 46, 269, 270
implicated in poisonings, 183–84, 189
as patron of the arts, 185, 187
tried in Chambre Ardente, 187–91, 194, 207
Boultz, Monsieur, 136–39
Bourdelot, Pierre, 75, 175
Brinvilliers, Antoine Gobelin, marquis of, 9–10, 82, 97
Brinvilliers, Marie-Madeleine, marquise de, 9–14, 77
arrest of, 91, 244
box of evidence against, 81–83, 85–87, 95, 257
capture and return of, 90–92, 127
children of, 82
execution of, 97–100, 140–41, 142, 195, 198, 244
in flight from France, 83, 90
implicated in poisoning, 89, 94, 257, 259
marriage of, 9–10, 82
members of nobility implicated by, 114
poisoning admitted by, 97, 98
Sainte-Croix’s affair with, 10–11, 81–83, 127
suicide
attempts of, 91–92
torture of, 96–97, 136
trial in absentia of, 94–95, 244
trial of, 92, 95–96, 124, 244, 258
brodequins (torture boots), 88, 138–40, 171, 173–75, 196, 212–13
Brunet, Jean, death of, 161, 166
buffets, 59
Bussy-Rabutin, Roger de, 207
Camuset, Jacques, 156–57, 265
canal, at Versailles gardens, 58
cantharidin, 30
cantharis (Spanish fly), 30, 146–47, 179
Carignan, princess of, 190
Carlos, prince of Spain, 44
Carmelite convents, 106–8, 159
Catholic Church, 24, 31, 32, 160
cemeteries, 123
censorship, 270
Cessac, marquis of, 152, 269
Chaboissière (miscreant), 209
Chamberlain, Hugh, 75
chamber pots, 21
Chambre Ardente (secret tribunal):
clearing the docket of, 224–25
Duplessis’s four suggestions for, 223–24
expanded scope of, 223
Louis’s charge to impose justice universally through, 164, 187, 191, 206
Louis’s creation of, 168–69, 244, 265
Louis’s dissolution of, 224–25, 226, 245
nobility’s opposition to, 192, 194
play based on, 185–86
reconvening of, 224, 244, 274
secret court within, 221
site of, 168–69, 233
suspension of, 211–12, 215–16, 220–21, 244
testimony and trials in, 169, 170–176, 178, 187–194, 233, 244; see also specific trials
Chambre des Amours, 106
Chamois (Launay’s colleague), 124
Chanfrain, Jeanne, 214, 258
Charas, Moyse, 69–72
Charles I, king of England, 45
Charles II, king of England, 65, 74
Charles V, king of France, 128, 262
charms, 28
Château d’If, 64
Châtelet compound:
bureaucratic structure of, 6–7, 9, 18, 257
criminal courts at, 40, 88
La Reynie’s headquarters at, 24, 114, 133, 158
prison at, see Grand Châtelet prison
Chéron, Anne, 147–48
arrest of, 145
execution of, 173, 244
torture of, 173–74, 271
Chevreuse, duchess of, 24
chicory, 256
childbirth, mortality in, 17