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Welcome to the past, I'm fair dowdy and I'm the lantern avoiding and when we left off with a verbal series. Last Lui, the thirteenth and his chief adviser Cardinal Richelieu, whose also known as the red eminence had passed away. Just within a few months of each other in one thousand six hundred and forty two and one thousand six hundred and forty three making Louis XIV much like greasy LU, LU, the fourteenth, whose also known as the sun, king or the grand monarch. You can we do in entire series just about him his wars as expansion of french territory and, of course has mistresses, but the truth is since he's, France's most famous monarchs. You ve probably come across at least some. And so before I mean is probably is not something that you must industry class any are probably not that, as we mentioned in the last upset, you can't do theories on the bourbon family and leave out Louis the fourteenth, because we hear things

defines the family. So in this episode we're gonna focused on his court at first sight, during the very height of his reign, in how it reflects some of his contributions to french society. But we are also going to focus on a dark scandal which, because sort of shows the your side of his reign of power and a mystery of sorts called the affair of the poison that doesn't make you and trade. I don't know what well and this little mystery completely shocked and disturbed at the french court at this time, and I am often marked a turning point for the king, though, before we get there as usual, we're gonna start getting just give a little bit of background on only the fourteenth, even though you may know some of those who just want a kind of set the scene for this affair of pay and so that you know maybe what led up to and what was going on at the time So just a little recap from last episode, Lui the fourteenth was born

September theft, the sixteen thirty eight and at the time he was called God. Given it was a really deal at the time because it came after a pretty big drives for his mother, who is Anne of Austria and lose the thirteenth. They haven't, had any children up to that point. So people considered Lui the fourteen visible divinity. Almost they thought that his his birth was on miracle, and since he was five on his father died, though, and ruled as regent, alongside Prime Minister Cardinal Jewels Mazarin, who she had and pack to advise her. So it's interesting. It's kind of the same set up that Louis, the thirteenth He became king coming to the throne, boy with his mother, serving as regions with an adviser who had a lot of power. The big difference here, though,

that, unlike Richelieu Mazarin wasn't falling in and out of favour with the queen. He did have a lot of enemies, though, and namely those enemies were the french nobles. We know noble there, always stirring up trouble. Here. And a lot of this trouble started under Richelieu, whose policies of the monarchy reduce the influence that melody. You know I mean he was all about the absolute power, the king, so exactly through some of the nobility and the judicial bodies, such as the party were feeling a little bit disenfranchise like they sort of lost out. In theory, to get a little somethin back, so they decided do something about it and they staged a series of civil war is known as the France against the crown and though the fund ultimately unsuccessful Louis grow up in the midst of all this, he grew up in the midst of noble,

rebelling against term, and this atmosphere definitely made an impression on em and by most accounts he was neglected also as a child brought it mostly by servants. So colored his vision, I think, of the future and how he wanted to rule. He wanted to be secure and powerful and its future and that's definitely gonna come into play, but mother, continue to rule even after Lui the fourteenth came of age, but after a measure and died in sixteen sixty one really shocked the country by telling everybody all of his ministers, everyone that he intended to rule for himself. This is unheard of the king is thus to, maybe dabble in rolling or have certain strong suits if it's like economic stuff, military stuff, but then spend a lot, this time enjoying being king. So decided take it on himself founded ridiculous right, but, from this perspective,

Louis, the fourteenth saw himself as gods representative here on earth and meta, maybe because here Similar things set out from a young age bet. He basically thought that this gave him the right to rule as a dictator, essentially an absolute mark and from point on. He really set out to control every aspect of what was going on in France, the military decisions, the economy, the cultural life and he does obviously has some advisers. He has a few ministers around him to help him out, but he really work. Thirty be works at it like a full time. Job spending eight hours a day, just devoting himself too the little details of what's going on in the kingdom right end really every little detail, so as we mention to lower the fourteenth was known for a lot of things, including going to war alot, especially with the Netherlands. In his hand, expand its territories on his death bed. In fact, he was remember saying I have loved war too much, but he's also crow.

With bringing a contemporary conception of luxury, probably a lot of how we think of France, especially Paris. Today. I think too the country. I thought rather than one source as the elevating lifestyle to fine arts, which I thought was a nice way to put it. So she brought some fancy, listen to it, the others that there is a sore down the road on peach tree that fell like lifestyle goods, and I just I'm somebody our conception of what that. Even I think Louis interesting, though you know this this you mentioned heap, he thought he could rule like a dictator that its extended all sorts of things, not just control of the country, but he imposed his artistic taste on all of France. He nurtured talents of the writer Moliere and made him right all this stuff. That was

supporting the monarchy in supporting the king. He supported the painter, Vigo and in doing this, a lot of people say that Louis helped, french culture attain the same level of respect. That italian had it it it elevated the country true, and it seems that he wasn't just dilatory and doing all this either. He seems to have actually had a true love for the arts. Fun fact he himself was an pushed ballet dancer and even performed at court in costume and everything we I mean just imagine this king, who participates in wars and fights and on the site, is also a very elegant. Artists have actually seen a picture of him ass, a teenager dressed in his son King Costume, which is like a gold flaming costume with points radiating out from it wonder if it was the ballet costume could have been so again, he had control over every little detail. He decides

not only when they go to war and economic things, but he decides what beautiful and what etiquette should be, and he imposes these tests on everybody, and he also you sit in a way to get what he wants politically vs, our go back to those nobles who rose up and with a young boy against the monarchy and Louis didn't forget these guys and he didn't forget the circumstances that created a problem that, though he drew the noblemen and cord and he tried to keep them there. Any try to keep them occupied with frivolous thing that gambling, and he really took note careful note of who with their and who was so if you were usually there and then one day you were missing lily to me. Did. You know why you have been gone. If you were in and out all the time he needed a good exe from you and, if you weren't around at all, you're in trouble. That was really really bad there

probably no good excuse for being constantly absent from court yeah. And if you were one of those people who has never there, you would really hard time getting what you wanted, because that's kind of how the key decided things he would or if you approach, for example, and he said I need more land or something, but if you want people who are around a lot. He was known to say things like He is a man I never see and that we were to be the end of it. You wouldn't get what you wanted, because he hadn't been in favour of the king, MIDAS I'll just stay or castle at that point, the being at Corps sticking to the kings, roles of etiquette became really essential for nobles, who wanted anywhere in life. You you couldn't essentially be your own king anymore, with your own vassals in your Ethel in your land in your army, you had to be poor watching Lui eat right, so it just a basis one king anymore, with your own vassals politics, your castle in your life.

And in your army. You had from Paris to be a core say it was easier for him to keep track of people there and it made the court more isolated. Two years he started going to force. I originally to carry out a love affair with his mistress, Mademoiselle de La Valliere, and I mean he was quite the womanizer think one thing we even though he was already married. He was married to the daughter of the king of Spain, at that point, when he was visiting Versailles, the structure was basically a hunting lodge. That sounds more rustic than it is it's still a fabulous country house, but still it's not like that. I saw you make a visit. And so in the sixteenth Louis starts, transforming it into this enormous palace and architectural. Wonder and Thank you. No part of it is to bring the nobles there, but authors though he has his own stronghold he's not endanger like he was a child in Paris gagged

a bit uncomfortable there, so Versailles is sort of an escape for him, but he's often critic As for this, because Versailles so extravagant the palace. It received letters and it cost so credibly much some say that it clay ruins the nation was somewhere The price of a modern airports are just imagine that for a second but Actually, nobody knows for sure how much it costs, because the king is rumoured to have destroyed the bill after he saw how much it was, and is the only guy says that way too much on a thing like that, something blondie you a deal, but even even though you think, if it costs as much as a modern airport, all of the nobles we're staying. There would be a pretty nice quarters, at least that wasn't the case. I mean it was the lap of luxury for the royal family, but the other gas, and sometimes there are as many as one thousand people there were put in, he's really small cramped rooms that were too high or to called for the seas, and I mean this is not the servant.

Talking about these are people who are used to living in palaces themselves, yeah seems I'm sure it wasn't. Bad, it almost seems like a slum live right on top of each other. Remember your place definitely so. This is it all to set up the scene for the king, at the height of his role by the six seventies round. Sixteen eighty or so he's been doing well in wars, he's adored by his cord and he's just generally living large out in Versailles, but we're going about. Practice a little back to explain sort of his situation with his mistress. Isn't everything that's going on so back in sixteen? Sixty seven he taken on a new mistress, the Marquis De Martyrs far and they together for years, and they even had seven can together, one of whom died so the remaining six kids. They are legitimized and she had been a lady in waiting to the queen and she was married to the Marquis de Malta's Pon, with whom she had two kids, also her

didn't really like what was going on between her and the king and apparently express that somehow because he was exiled to guy on in sixteen sixty eight and legally separated from her a shortly after that, the key and the Marquis De La to spank go on to be together for about thirteen years, but it Doesnt last one want to Spanish implicated in a scandal, one of the most noted criminal cases of the seventeenth century. In fact, the affair of the poisons fill this whole scandalous episode actually starts back in sixteen seventy three. When the contest foresaw who's, the husband of Olympic Monsignor who's, the former favorite of Louie, the fourteenth, and, if you're, really gonna, keep track of everything the knees of Cardinal Mazur. So when the contest dies in these strange circumstance. Circumstances that suggested poisoning people start talking in our interesting news, the writer

the same time as this contest was sad story. Another big case was going down in Paris. The Marquise Dhahran Vizier, who was an aristocrat, had been found her poisoned her father and her brothers and who have made attempts on other members of a family, including her husband. Eventually, it seem like she was trying to kill every mail, family, member and gather money. And there was a lover who left behind evidence incriminating both of them and round. The eight had also knocked off a few inmates in the charity. Hospital testing out her poisons opposing as they do. Gutter noble woman walked through that really walls of the charity hospital. I really seeing if her ever stop was Potan enough to kill her own family, so those are too big stories. Guy even imagine today that, beyond the cover of all the tablet, the way people are obsessed with at the time

just so. You understand the situation, although better there, a couple things that are going on around time. Also that sort of set up the scene a little bit poisons for one or more readily available, especially arsenic, and these points also very hearts, detect because there's no really there's no pathology around at the time. There's no csi! There's no bones! so nobody really am. Very easy to both use it as a way to kill somebody and also just use it possible accusation against somebody. For example, somebody dies and you could just say: oh, I think they were poisoned because there's no really way to prove whether or not they were so. There is a lot of us going on it's an upgrade from the tutor, pushing them down the stairs method, and also the other thing going on is that these nobles we mentioned whose fates were so closely tied to the kings favor These started turning to fortune tellers magicians, renegade priests, conjurers, basically the occult in general to try to improve their fortune.

And also thwart their enemies at court, and this was We especially true for women at the time. Just because for a lot, This was the only way for them to be free and wealthy and becoming a widow yeah, so getting rid of your husband or male family members, though the aim is caught in sixteen seventy six, then she's tried and executed, but before she died, she said to have said something kind of. Shifting and kind of skin to a lot of people in France, she said quote: the nobility are added as well. If I wanted to speak out, I could destroy Don't I'm down near exactly so. Suddenly people are suspicious Who is she talking about? Who else of added right? So a couple of sort of shady situations happen in the meantime. I think that after that, there's an attempt on the king and nothing really comes of it, but then this

situation. The affair of the poisons erupts into a full blown scandal in sixteen seventy nine, when the police apprehend of working class women who claimed to have been selling poisons to duchesses marquise, is princes and lords and they immediately began to implicate other people in their class, including a fortune teller known as love or saw she was a fortune some of the most illustrious names and France. So this was a problem. Yeah in these three ladys start mentioning some other very important, namely the story keep spreading. So basically, we people decided to do something about it. So, with Louis approval, hasn't ministers sets up a secret investigative tribunal, known as the Commission of the arsenal. Goal there is to look into and try some of the cases involving the more important names involved, and this was both. You preserve discretion in these situations and also to prevent the guilty from escaping justice, because they were so close to the king so essentially

don't want to get out too everybody in their brother in Paris, because it's just going to cause a lot of commotion and terribly and bear thing right. So they want. Keep it on a download. They set up this tribunal and start trying people, I also don't want somebody to get away with poisoning their whole family just cause. They happen to be the kings friend. True but then, in September sixteen seventy nine, the Marquise Dumont Fancy name starts being thrown around in connection with this whole affair, so this was gone Syria saw the sudden very close, citing tail yeah. The woman who is just about the closest person in the world to the king is linked to this, shady underworld of poisons alchemy in all sorts of things in her accusations, go pretty deep, she's accused of four things. She's accused of buying,

of potions from love us all to retain her hold over the king, she's also accused four things: she's accused of buying love potions from love us all formed by Say, ten calls and in those black masses she was accused of having a priest if children over her, basically using her naked belly as an altar, and the purpose was this to retain the kings, favour the accusation was that she had attempted to kill one of her rivals using a pair of poisoned gloves. Some reports also reported that it was with poisoned milk that she attempted to poison arrival and the fourth accusation was that she had attempted to kill the king himself, so that was kind of the most serious one and I still can't get over the black man with a firm. He s, pretty girls any serious and growth. But now I suspect that they accusers

picked up a lot of this because they knew that Louie wouldn't let anything happen to the mother of his kids, this woman, who is so publicly linked to him- and I mean they might have been right to a certain extent. He he didn't want her name to get out so much with, say a public execution of some of these in class women who are involved the I guess they play their part they definitely didn't, and I think you are right. I think they are absolutely correct on what they did Louis had everything covered up. He had no from interrogations that were captain effort sheets instead of a ledger. He specifically ordered for that to be that way, and of course most people suspect him This actually happened are supposed to happen. He destroyed the sheets later on destroy the evidence and on October first. Sixteen eighty following the execution of Madame philosopher, Louie decided to

Ben sessions of the Commission of the Arsenal, and many believe this is because philosopher made damaging allegations against Malta. Spar failure Just stop love without talking about her anymore. It was of a woman, and things are getting out of Louis troll re by and the Commission of the Arsenal had already judged a hundred and four cases and thirty four, if they accuse, were executed too condemned in absentia and four were sent to the galleys. Thirty four sentences, I'll, banishment or financial demands and thirty were acquitted, so pretty serious results from this tribunal, but it takes a couple years to wind down. It takes a while to finish up all the executions and the sentencing of people who were guilty and send them to their various prisons in places that they need to go, but by sixteen eighty two there was also a sort of positive result of this affair of the poisons

two, the first legal restrictions on the sale of poisons in France, so some guy got to come out of it anyway, yeah I couldn't go poisoned the people in the poor hospital anymore, quite so easily it's still a mystery. How guilty the marquise demand spar. The wise I mean most people now think that she probably didn't have any designs on killing the king that found dreamily reactionary Emmy. She would have nothing to gain from killing the king. In fact, she would probably lose most of what she had, as MR says, often dead, but probably did shrink, love potions and participate in some of these black masses. Alot of people think that a lot of you Inga, but either way her relationship with a king definitely ended shortly after this whole thing boy. Lastly, I guess He couldn't trust her anymore or he lost interest after finding out about all of the.

An altar full. I think he just seen the changes image a little back he's getting away from the bad reputation and he was a devout com, I can really needed to kind of rain it back in July. In his reputation definitely did change. In fact, the way court ran started. Change. A lot to gambling and entertainment still took place, but they took place underneath this veneer of propriety. It's a little hypocritical but Louis himself, with getting older to and yeah just trying to change his imagine reform publicly. I've seen it described actually pronounces pleasure but kind of funny. If you think about it and he took up a new mistress. So I don't know how that works kidding. I talked about her in an earlier epithet. Madame damn out now and it's interesting,

you're not quite sure if it if he took up a mistress or if they were secretly married before anything, started happening but anyways they they live together until until his death but he dies in seventeen fifteen at the age of seventy seven and he actually lives. So long has been on the throne for so long that he's outlived his son and his grandson so leaving the question of who will become air and that takes us and come to a good stopping yes, I think for our next instalment, which may or may not have something to do with Lui the fifteenth his air keep going on. These numbers are just keep truck and along I mean there's so much you can do it. We could probably Turnus until your long series don't worry. We probably won't that they're just seems to be a lot of good ideas like given the royal than the winter. For some reason, it just feels right knowing their LEO cold in Versailles

shivering in their rooms without he recalled in only one of them be overclouded, as noted by yeah. I guess about wrap it up for the sun king. We, recommended how royalty work seventy times now. So I don't know you can just happened. The french Revolution or that's gonna- get that about Rhapsody, the fat king in the affair of the poison, but you can only suggest morning. Lui topics are more bourbon topics to earth on Twitter. It must in history on Facebook,

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