In the 1670s, Louis XIV of France was the target of a series of assassination attempts involving poisons and necromancy. But who was the perpetrator? Josephine Wilkinson untangles a conspiracy that scandalised a nation
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Somerset, Lady Anne at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0297842161 - ISBN 13: 9780297842163 - Weidenfeld & Nicolson - 2003 - Softcover