Catherine Deshayes

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Catherine Deshayes , widowed Montvoisin, known as the Neighbor (Paris, v. 1640 - Paris, February 22nd 1680), adventurous Frenchwoman.

Palmist, abortionist, delivering to the practice black masses, it was mixed with the Affaire with the poisons. It would have acted for the account of Madam de Montespan, which was then forsaken by Louis XIV for Miss de Fontanges and wanted to return in favor by its magic spells.

Judged with 36 accomplices, she was condemned to died and burned in Place of Strike the February 22nd 1680. As for Madam de Montespan, it was not worried, by protection of the king, and continued to attend the Cour.

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“I will speak to you only about Mrs Voisin; it was not Wednesday, as I had said it to you, than it was burned, it was only yesterday. She knew her stop as of Monday, thing extremely extraordinary. The evening she says to her guards: “What? We do not make médianoche? ” She ate with them at midnight, by imagination, because it was not thin day; she drank much wine, she sang twenty drinking songs”.

(...) “Five hours there are bound it; and, with a torch with the hand, it appeared in the Tombereau, equipped with white: it is a kind of dress to be burned. It was extremely red, and it was seen that it pushed back the confessor and the crucifix with violence. In Notre-Dame, she wanted to never pronounce the amend, and in front of the Hotel-of-City she defended herself as far as she could to leave the tipcart: one drew it from force, one put it on roughing-hew it, sitted and dependant with iron. It was covered straw. It the Jura much. It pushed back the straw five or six times; but finally fire increased, and one lost sight of the fact it, and its ashes are in the air at present. Here is the death of Mrs Voisin, celebrates by his crimes and its impiété”.

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