| #1128322 in Books | 2007-01-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.63 x6.00l,.81 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant analysis of the Affair of the Poisons|By FrenchTurk|Brilliant analysis of the Affair of the Poisons. One chapter reads like an Agatha Christie murder mystery transposed to the seventeenth-century.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I regret waiting so long|By Giordano Paredros|I regret waiting so long|||“Strange Revelations effectively explores the multiple ways in which power was exercised at the court of Louis XIV, focusing on the ‘hidden forms’ effected through poison and magic. Mollenauer does an excellent job of probing these
The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people—including Louis XIV’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King’s capital.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France (Magic in History) | Lynn Wood Mollenauer. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
