THE AFFAIR OF POISONS, LOUIS XIV, MADAME DE MONTESPAN, AND ONE OF HISTORY'S GREAT UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1969 Frances Sanger Mossiker is an American author best known for her historical novels. Her works include, Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend, The Queen's Necklace, and Madame de Sevigne. NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE BOOK, TIGHT, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT ON SPINE, INSCRIBED AS GIFT IN FRONT OF BOOK, 26 PAGES OF ARTWORK AND PICTURES. The Affair of the Poisons (L'affaire des poisons) was a major murder scandal in France which took place in 1677¿1682, during the reign of King Louis XIV. During it, a number of prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft. The scandal reached into the inner circle of the king. It led to execution of 36 people. Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715). Louis, the greatest king of France's grand siècle, was only a small boy when he succeeded his father in 1643. Because of his youth, real power passed to his mother Anne of Austria as regent and to the Italian-born first minister, Cardinal Mazarin. When Mazarin died in 1661, Louis refused to appoint another first minister and instead grasped the reins of government himself, never to relinquish them so long as he lived. ARTWORK ON SEVERAL PAGES IN THE BACK DEPICTING TORTURE, PRISONERS, EXECUTION, SORCERESS, QUESTIONING AND OTHER INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THIS TIME PERIOD. GREAT BOOK. LOVE, POISONS, FALL, BIBLIOGRAPHY, TRIAL, MAGIC OCCULT. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.