is the most sensational of the famous cases of black magic. All claims practices of Satanism are accumulated: sacrilegious rites, rituals infamous bloody rites, spells, potions made for love or death, demonic evocation, slaughters children ... But we are no longer in the fifteenth century, in the dark mystery of a castle where Breton Gilles de Rais, protected by rank, operated, monster isolated, surrounded only by a few accomplices, he needed to get his victims, we are no longer in troubled times, violent and superstitious last Valois. A century has passed since Charles IX dying questioned about his whereabouts the severed head of a child (mass of blood) and we're the most brilliant period of the reign of Louis XIV, and it is among the great ladies of the court the most brilliant of the world that is recruited, at least in part, the clientele of the witch which has been called the biggest criminal of all time: THE NEIGHBOR.
Oddly enough, the scandal broke when officially were beginning to no longer want to admit the crime of magic. The parliament of Paris had virtually abandoned the prosecution of this kind, Colbert had pardon witches condemned to death by the parliament of Rouen and had forbidden the courts to accept the accusation of witchcraft. In reality, the magic in the second half of the seventeenth, was everywhere. In some chapels came down the faithful who, forbidden by priests, were masses said for the death of those they hated. Women, unhappily married, and rose to the abbey of Montmartre pray SAINT RABONE RABONE of their husbands, some of them, rabona meant to kill. Trade was common potions and potions were often those potions in the kind of Brinvilliers, simple poisons, "inheritance powder". And witchcraft, poison or not, has ceased to be a popular thing, she won the bourgeoisie, she won mostly the upper classes, the nobility, where she became a fashion, a rage that will stop at nothing ... It was the snobbery of the time.
Deaths bizarre and devastating place that had convulsed the court and city. A note was found in a confessional know a project of poisoning against the king and the dauphin. Shortly thereafter (December 1677) were arrested a former officer, Vanen. the papers seized on him revealed a strange combination of false monneyeurs, alchemists, black magicians, to demonize; association of priests, officers, financiers, society women, lacquers, pickpockets, people without confession. At the same time, the prisons of Our Lady warned of Justice, without naming anyone, that many people who confessed to accusing them of poisoning. The great affair
forever famous as the case of poison was triggered by the chatter of a woman making wine. That woman, Mary Bosse, a well known fortune teller, boasted openly during a dinner washed down with plenty of Burgundy, having made his fortune quickly. "Another 3 poisoning, it could withdraw ..." The statement was reported by a guest in free Desgrez captain, who was arrested in Liege, where she had ENFI, the Marquise de Brinvilliers. The wife of an archer, Mary Bosse sent in to complain about her husband, won very easily poison. The police lieutenantde THE Reynie stopped the soothsayer (January 1679) and also another woman, The Strong, who had been held at the dinner or Marie Bosse said too much. The two women interviewed did revelations that unveiled a series of crimes with which the hairs of the Brinvilliers who, four years before, shocked the public, were relatively little. It was here a real association to operate almost openly sacrilegious and poisoning. We quickly came to that was the center, Catherine Monvoisin, said the neighbor, who was arrested in March as ellle left the church because, oddly enough, this hardened criminal was pious. It was proved before sacrificing newborn children she waved.
The Neighbor
witches, fortune-tellers, palmist, fortune-tellers of all kinds were at the time, we said, a great success and Voisin was the most famous of all. It was at the time of his arrest, some forty years. It was a pretty stout little woman, almost pretty, eyes Avenc strongest and most penetrating. Her husband Anthony Monvoisin was established jeweler on the Pont Marie, but, having made bad business, he had to leave his shop and that's when the neighbor had to be resolved soothsayer, who taught palmistry at the age 9 years. She also read more about the faces of his clients or customers that in the lines of their hands and did not disdain to employ various tricks, juggling, information skilfully withdrawn, said to dazzle customers, assure him of his exceptional power of his supernatural gifts. She had an extraordinary vogue: the lovers, the ambitious, the treasure hunters, those who were curious to know the future and to obtain secret information or aid the mysterious consulted. In his house at Villeneuve on Gravois (near the ramparts, in the final quarter ST Denis), customers thronged from early morning. It made her come to the salons. She earned huge sums: one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand francs (worth the time) per year, but spent lavishly. dress and coat she put to make its oracles had been forged for her and had cost him 15,000 pounds, which would now more than 38,000 Euros. The mantle, as the shoes were decorated with gold eagles. She spent a lot of money to subsidize the alchemists. She kept open, loving good food and especially good wine, which she abused volotiers, perhaps to stifle the remorse that assailed him. She paid her richly lovers were many and among them was the executioner of Paris, this one provided the fat hanging, a substance necessary for certain spells. Finally, note that it had, although it was sticks and bewitch her husband, the family feeling quite developed. To a friend, The Lepere, who warned against the danger she faced in committing so many crimes, she said she had to feed 10 people including his old mother.
The Neighbor, white magic, was passed very quickly to black magic, knowing the medicine she had been transferred from revenue to recover revenue that kill, midwife, and she became abortionist killer of children. The massacres of innocent she committed were horrific. Above the room where she gave her consultations, there was a loft with a furnace. She confessed to have burned in the oven, jarrdin or buried in the bodies of more than 2500 children. Quantity of small bones were indeed found. We talk all the time of the other crimes of the neighbor and his associates, men and women, wizards and witches. Note now that the neighbor was burning comdamné by the House to be tortured and burned. It was said that its relations with the devil she knew her arrest four days before it was delivered and that this did not prevent him to continue until the end of drinking, eating, debauchery and sing obscene songs. Dressed in white and a torch in hand, she was in a tomb, led to the death on 22/02/1680. Madame de Sevigne writes, "we put it on the pyre, seated and tied with iron; we covered it with straw and she swore a lot and she pushed the straw 5 to 6 times, but finally the fire and we augmented the has lost sight of, and his ashes are in the air right now. "
The Burning House
The Burning House, special court established to try perpetrators quickly and forcefully to the Affair of the Poisons, was so named because it was hung with black and lighted torches quantity. It meets for the first time April 10, 1679 at Arsenal and took the decision that education would remain secret so that the public does not know the details of the diabolical practices nor the composition of the poisons used ... At that time, poisoning inspired terror even greater than we knew back in scientifically track, mostly in the bodies of victims. Reynie was the rapporteur at the Chamber Burning whose operations rested almost exclusively on him. Crimes, scandals revealed successively surpassed imagination. The Burning House, since its first meeting until the last, dated July 21, 1682 with a suspension of October 1680 to May 1681 deliberated on the fate of 442 accused. Some those they committed suicide or died in prison. 36 were condemned to the stake and the question, others to the galleys, others in exile, others to life imprisonment. Some lived 40 years and over in the dungeons where they were attached to the wall by iron chains. A number of culprits escaped, their accomplices being placed too high for the trial took place. Among the main defendants were, in addition to the Neighbor, the Hale and Marie Bosse, several witches: the Lepère, the Filastre the Dode, and as men: Lesage, Chanlieu, Collart, Mariette, Joseph Cotton, Dubousquet, many other Guibourg including the infamous, a defrocked priest, aged 70, renegade, sacrilegious murderer of children, black masses of officiating, saying the bare stomach of a woman ... And the black masses, black and bloody, in what conditions they said? And preparing clients for what it's filthy conjuring pasta or entered the blood of murdered children, the ashes of burned children, the human seed? The greatest ladies of the court had lent to these abominations, had requested, traveling by night or in the house of the neighbor whose daughter, Margueritte Monvoisin, opened to them, mysteriously, the door or in a suburban home.
Mrs St Bridge, the Marshal de la Ferte, Princess of Tingery Madame d'Argenson, the Comtesse de Soissons, the Duchess of Bouillon, the last two nieces of Mazarin, were compromised, and lesser amounts Ladies importance: Madame de Dreux Chair Lefréton, Madame de Poulaillon. All were granted a special indulgence. The king allowed Olympe Mancini ("deep in crime and Doctor Poison" said Michelet) to flee to Belgium, while others recognized that poisoners were acquitted. However, a certain Madame Brunet, simple bourgeois it is true, was condemned and executed; she had poisoned her husband to marry the musician Philibert. The scandal, extending became terrible and reached Madame de Montespan. The Filastre and Margarita Monvoisin declared that illustrates favorite had been told by Guibourg black masses on itself to win first, then to retain the favor of the king whom she had been absorbing powders as described above . She had also tried, by magic and poison to kill the Duchess of Fontanges her rival. Louis XIV intervened and had suspended the sittings of the House burning, despite opposition from the Reynie and the king by his followers burned room where Madame de Montespan was named. But he parted from her and gave the lock Desoeillets, and following his accomplice.
What we knew about the scandal upset the court and city. Many criticized the severity of the judges of the fiery, very relative severity, and the indiscreet zeal brought about by the Reynie in the repression of the suite of packages. Defendants sometimes showed extreme arrogance, Marie Anne Mancini, Duchesse de Bouillon, had sought, through the magic and the poison to get rid of her husband to marry the Duke of Vandôme, her lover. The Duke of Bouillon, however, and although he had learned of Louis XIV himself, accompanied his wife when she had appear. He held her right hand, and the Duke of Vandôme held her left hand. They arrived in a carriage horses at 6 followed by manièrede friendly event, another 20 carriages loaded with gentlemen and ladies of the court. The Duchess said to his judges with a haughty arrogance, saying she had come only out of respect for the king but not for the court that she did not recognize at all. To the queen asked him if she had actually seen the devil in the witches, she replied, looking intently: "I see him now, he is old, ugly and dressed as a counselor of state." However, it was exiled. All women
compromised or who had not thought to be so much courage. One of them, Mrs. T., knew that his name was on a book seized from the neighbor and lived in terrible fright. One day they just prevent a man wants to speak to him. "Know his name," she said trembling at home. This one comes up: "it is called Desgrez ..." She turned pale, the famous free. It has to stop, it is lost. She throws herself at the feet of her husband, says she was once among the neighbors, to ... ask for a recipe to fatten ... The husband who does not doubt his word of reassurance, but Desgrez not going ... She panics, wants to commit suicide ... The husband in fact prevents and ask the visitor what he wants ... The other reason it is called Desgrez well, but it is he, as an upholsterer and comes to a command ... That adventure amused the public, weary of the dark stories that he was satisfied every day ... It was the cheerful notes, which so often mingles with the horrible reality.
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