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Perceptions of the Murderess in London and Paris, 1674-1789
Perceptions of the Murderess in London and Paris, 1674-1789 Anna Clare Jenkin A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of History August, 2015 Thesis Summary This project is a comparative study of print about women accused of murder in eighteenth-century London and Paris. While gender played an important role in determining how such women were perceived, in that female killers stimulated forms of social introspection that male murderers did not, this thesis demonstrates that a wider variety of factors affected the kinds of women who stimulated concern among the London and Parisian populace. Most importantly, only eleven women accused of murder stimulated high levels of print reaction in the period, implying that aspects beyond their gender were behind such reactions. Through focus on the print material and judicial records of these eleven high-profile murderesses, including ballads, pamphlets, images, novels, legal tracts and printed correspondence, this thesis will expose a number of contemporary concerns present in eighteenth-century London and Paris. In both cities, perceptions of the crime of female- perpetrated murder reflected emerging concerns about the impact of urbanisation on social structures and women’s roles, alongside shifting European-wide ideas of gender difference. Murderous women’s occupations as midwives, servants, aristocrats and household managers were used to explore broader concerns about emerging sites of female independence. Discussion of cases that involved adultery, male sociability and court intrigue were used to reveal the perceived corrupting effects of urban society. -
L'affaire Des Poisons : Les Origines Du Satanisme
L’AFFAIRE DES POISONS : LES ORIGINES DU SATANISME par Daniel Cardinal Thèse de maîtrise présentée au département d’études anciennes et de sciences des religions de la Faculté des Arts de l’Université d’Ottawa. © Daniel Cardinal, Ottawa, Canada, 2021 Résumé L’affaire des poisons est une célèbre enquête policière qui se déroula à la fin du XVIIe siècle en France sous le règne de Louis XIV. Les rapports officiels de la police de l’époque allaient dévoiler l’implication de membres des plus hautes sphères de la société française, y compris du clergé, du parlement, de la noblesse et de l’aristocratie. Mais l’enquête fut rapidement mise sous silence lorsque le roi découvrit l’implication de son ancienne maitresse en titre, la marquise de Montespan, avec qui il avait passé neuf ans de sa vie. Le nom de la dame fut mentionné par de nombreux témoins qui l’impliquèrent dans plusieurs méfaits, dont l’achat et l’utilisation de philtres d’amour et de divers poisons. Mais pis encore, Montespan fut compromise dans des cérémonies de nature blasphématoires organisées en secret par une devineresse du nom de Catherine Montvoisin - dites la Voisin - et son complice, l’abbé Étienne Guibourg. Ces rituels allaient plus tard prendre le nom de messe noire et inspirer une nouvelle forme de religiosité qui allait prendre le nom de satanisme. À partir des éléments révélés durant l’enquête de l’affaire des poisons, le satanisme allait pour la première fois se distinguer des pratiques de la sorcellerie et de la magie rituelle et se définir en tant que système de croyances. -
Women and Poisons in 17Th Century France Benedetta Faedi Duramy Golden Gate University School of Law, [email protected]
Golden Gate University School of Law GGU Law Digital Commons Publications Faculty Scholarship 2012 Women and Poisons in 17th Century France Benedetta Faedi Duramy Golden Gate University School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/pubs Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons Recommended Citation 87 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 347 (2012). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at GGU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of GGU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WOMEN AND POISONS IN 17TH CENTURY FRANCE BENEDETTA FAEDI DURAMY* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................................. 347 I. Marie-Madeleine Marguerite D'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers ....... 348 II. Catherine Deshayes, Madame Montvoisin, known as La Voisin ........ .353 III. The Chambre Ardente ........................................................................... .357 IV. Fran~oise Athena'is de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan ............................................................................. .361 V. Poisons and Black Magic and Women's Agency ................................... .366 Conclusion ................................................................................................... .3 70 INTRODUCTION During the late 1660s and the early 1670s, several mysterious deaths of influential members of the French nobility followed one after the other, leading to a scandal, better known as the "Affair of the Poi sons," which involved prominent individuals at the royal court of Louis XIV in France. The King, who was concerned that the widespread use of the practice of poisoning could endanger his own safety and that of the royal family, appointed Nicolas de La Reynie, the Lieutenant General of the Paris Police, to oversee the investigation. -
Madame De Brinvilliers and Her Times 1630-1676 by Hugh
IMES.^b r ,. I THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES IN MEMORY OF EDWIN CORLE PRESENTED BY JEAN CORLE MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS AND HER TIMES 1630-1676 i i BY HUGH STOKES ! ! WITH A FRONTISPIECE IN PHOTOGRAVURE AND FIFTEEN OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXII Tumbull 6f Spears, Printers, Edinburgh College Librarypc / 30 6 PREFACE " tells us that woman is un- utterably more wicked than man." If Madame de Brinvilliers could be taken as a NIETZSCHEnormal type of her sex one might be disposed to agree with the German philosopher. But Marie Marguerite d'Aubray was far from being an ordinary example of womanhood, and it is exactly that which makes her case so engrossing. Amongst the records of famous criminals the trial of this highly-born lady has always taken a prominent place. If criminology be at times a trifle morbid it is often valuable, and in this instance it enables us to follow rather closely a curiously complex society from which was evolved a mighty state. This volume is not intended to be so much a recital of the crimes of the Marquise as a picture of the lively circles in which she lived. One idea will certainly arise before the last page is reached, and the reader must guard his mind against it. It is unfortunate that the wicked people are generally more interesting than the good. There was much vice in the reign of Louis XIV., much hypocrisy, much double- dealing. We, by the way, in the twentieth century are not so virtuous that we need cast stones at the seven- teenth. -
Women and Poisons in 17Th Century France
Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 87 Issue 2 Women's Legal History: A Global Article 4 Perspective April 2012 Women and Poisons in 17th Century France Benedetta Faedi Duramy Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview Part of the Criminal Law Commons, European Law Commons, Law and Gender Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation Benedetta F. Duramy, Women and Poisons in 17th Century France, 87 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 347 (2012). Available at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol87/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chicago-Kent Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. WOMEN AND POISONS IN 17TH CENTURY FRANCE BENEDETTA FAEDI DURAMY* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................. ...... 347 I.Marie-Madeleine Marguerite D'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers.......348 II.Catherine Deshayes, Madame Montvoisin, known as La Voisin.........353 Ill. The Chambre Ardente... .............................. 357 IV.Frangoise Ath6nafs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan ............................... 361 V. Poisons and Black Magic and Women's Agency.... .................. 366 Conclusion ............................. ................ 370 INTRODUCTION During the late 1660s and the early 1670s, several mysterious deaths of influential members of the French nobility followed one after the other, leading to a scandal, better known as the "Affair of the Poi- sons," which involved prominent individuals at the royal court of Louis XIV in France. The King, who was concerned that the widespread use of the practice of poisoning could endanger his own safety and that of the royal family, appointed Nicolas de La Reynie, the Lieutenant General of the Paris Police, to oversee the investigation. -
Theater As Machine, Theater of Machines in Seventeenth-Century France
THEATER AS MACHINE, THEATER OF MACHINES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Catherine A. Viano A dissertation submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Romance Studies in the Department of Romance Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. Chapel Hill 2018 Approved by: Ellen R. Welch Dominique Fisher Dorothea Heitsch John D. Lyons Hassan Melehy Jessica Lynn Wolfe © 2018 Catherine A. Viano ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Catherine A. Viano: Theater as Machine, Theater of Machines in Seventeenth-Century France (Under the direction of Ellen R. Welch) According to traditional historiography, seventeenth-century French theater is characterized by a pure, unified, classical and disciplined aesthetic known as Classicism. However, several theatrical pieces resist this Classical ideal with special effects and the use of theater machines. My dissertation examines this “spectacular aesthetic” that plays a fundamental role in theater production throughout the century. I show that theater machines were used across genres, in tragedies, comedies, tragi-comédies, comédie-ballets, ballets de cour and operas. The ubiquity of machine effects in all kinds of dramatic entertainment testifies to the power or popularity of the spectacular throughout the Classical period. This project also examines how playwrights and engineers use machines to stage powerful acts or perhaps undermine the authority behind those acts. My dissertation unfolds in three chapters, each devoted to exploring the efficacy of dramatic spectacle from aesthetic, critical and cultural early modern perspectives. By focusing on the value playwrights, machinists, and actors had for the effects theater machines produced, I will expand upon our understanding of how dramatists interpreted the range of affective responses to theater, including but not limited to Aristotle’s catharsis. -
Mondo Cane Jos De Gr Uyter & H Arald Thys
MONDO CANE JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS MONDO CANE A few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when and hundreds of drawings, paintings, photographs and victims and murderers are displayed equally on small EXHIBITION Communication PUBLICATION ISBN YALE 978-0-300-24774-9 SPONSORS AND PARTNERS LA LOGE, Brussels BOZAR–Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels urban breaks freed the European youth to think books carefully documenting their work. The only shelves on the wall, reminiscent of hunting trophies. This book was published in Laurence Morel – Nakami, This book was published on the Library of Congress Control Institutional partners MONDO CANE, concert MONDO CANE, exhibition Artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys have been that anything was possible, the two artists travelled type of communication their work allows for is binary Gathered together in that fashion, the composite conjunction with the exhibition Silke Neumann – Bureau N, occasion of MONDO CANE, Number: 2019938296 La Loge, Brussels by Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys by Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys collaborating since 1987, after frst meeting at Sint- to Switzerland with two girlfriends and Harald’s and stereotyped, and is explicitly revealed as such selection fades away, allowing for a new community Sarah-Claire Vermeulen – Serenai the exhibition by Jos de Gruyter & BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Organ piece composed and February – May 2020 MONDO CANE Harald Thys curated by Anne-Claire www.fondsmercator.be Brussels performed by Erik Thys Lukas art school in Brussels. Recognizing in each brother, Erik. During the trip, they shot Whymper without prudishness. In the dense – if not saturated to emerge, all the more uncanny as it is believable.