Another problem is that the underground network the French police uncovered on that occasion, which certainly did have some high class clients (hence all of Europe munching popcorn and observing the scandal) wasn't primarily consisting of poison deliveries, but provided abortions and their less-good-to-modern-eyes-looking twin service, midwife services plus letting your illegitimate child disappear, beautfy products like potions to enlarge your breasts, soothsaying and love potions.
...I can see how that would muddy the waters a great deal!
a box is found in his posession containing phioles with poison and a letter from her demanding them from him.
WHOOPS
And then an anonymous letter gets found in a Jesuit church in which the writer says that there is a a conspiracy to kill the King, and a lot of people have confessed to using poison regularly, but he can't break the seal of othe confession so can't name names, but please investigate, save the King.
Okay but this sounds... less than convincing...
The final winner, as mentioned repeatedly, will be Madame de Maintenon, the former Francoise Scarron, who started out as governess of the Louis/Athenais de Montespan children, one reason, btw, why she will be such a partisan of the Duc de Maine, the oldest boy of that set, against Liselotte's son Philippe II for the regency.)
Aww! That sounds endearing to me.
The Comtesse de Soissons gets accused of having poisoned her husband; the Marquise d'Alluye her brother-inlaw; the Princess of Tingry her newborn children; Madame de Bouillon a valet who knew about her love affairs. The King has returned a billet written by teh Duchess of Foix to her, in which she had written to La Voisin an din which she told her: "The more I rub, the less they grow." As His Majesty demanded an explanation for these words, she replied that she had asked la Voisin for a recipe for the development of her breasts.
The poor Comtesse de Soissons, she just wanted bigger breasts and she gets arrested for poisoning!
i>Also arrested: two priests, who supposedly read black mass over various ladies' bodies in order to get them the objects of their desires.
Re: Court of Louis XIV: The Affair of the Poisons: The Usual Suspects
Another problem is that the underground network the French police uncovered on that occasion, which certainly did have some high class clients (hence all of Europe munching popcorn and observing the scandal) wasn't primarily consisting of poison deliveries, but provided abortions and their less-good-to-modern-eyes-looking twin service, midwife services plus letting your illegitimate child disappear, beautfy products like potions to enlarge your breasts, soothsaying and love potions.
...I can see how that would muddy the waters a great deal!
a box is found in his posession containing phioles with poison and a letter from her demanding them from him.
WHOOPS
And then an anonymous letter gets found in a Jesuit church in which the writer says that there is a a conspiracy to kill the King, and a lot of people have confessed to using poison regularly, but he can't break the seal of othe confession so can't name names, but please investigate, save the King.
Okay but this sounds... less than convincing...
The final winner, as mentioned repeatedly, will be Madame de Maintenon, the former Francoise Scarron, who started out as governess of the Louis/Athenais de Montespan children, one reason, btw, why she will be such a partisan of the Duc de Maine, the oldest boy of that set, against Liselotte's son Philippe II for the regency.)
Aww! That sounds endearing to me.
The Comtesse de Soissons gets accused of having poisoned her husband; the Marquise d'Alluye her brother-inlaw; the Princess of Tingry her newborn children; Madame de Bouillon a valet who knew about her love affairs. The King has returned a billet written by teh Duchess of Foix to her, in which she had written to La Voisin an din which she told her: "The more I rub, the less they grow." As His Majesty demanded an explanation for these words, she replied that she had asked la Voisin for a recipe for the development of her breasts.
The poor Comtesse de Soissons, she just wanted bigger breasts and she gets arrested for poisoning!
i>Also arrested: two priests, who supposedly read black mass over various ladies' bodies in order to get them the objects of their desires.
This also sounds less than convincing to me.