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Footnotes for "My Reading of the Evidence, 1679"  

1. A copy of this service was bound with summer volume of the Brevarium Augustinianum (Paris: Coignard, 1684), in the Rodez public library, call number T. 1019.

2. Mercure galant, September 1679, pp. 55-56 and 63.

3. Archives de la Bastille, IV, pp. 293, 295-297; and for a summary of the case against Pennautier, Georges Mongrédien, Madame de Montespan et l'Affaire des poisons (Paris: Hachette, 1953), pp. 26-27.

4. Archives de la Bastille, V, pp. 15, 40-41, 55, and VII, pp. 114, 117; Jean-Christian Petitfils, L'Affaire des poisons (Paris, 1977), pp. 39, 42; Mongrédien, Poisons, pp. 36-40; and B.N., ms. Clairambault, 986, p. 357.

5. B.N., ms. fr. 24987, fol. 290.

6. Mongrédien, Poisons, p. 40.

7. Archives de la Bastille, V, pp. 282, 298, 310, 388, 391-392; and Mongrédien, Poisons, p. 46.

8. Archives de la Bastille, V, p. 388, interrogation of Belot; and for Catho, V, pp. 8, 102, 478, 484-485.

9. Mongrédien, Poisons, pp. 83-88.

10. B.N., ms. Clairambault, 986, pp. 223 ff; and p. 234 for yet another prisoner named Marguerite Charpentier.

11. B.N., ms. Clairambault, 986, p. 327.

12. See Mongrédien, Poisons.

13. In the late sixteenth century, Jean Charpentier's daughter Catherine married Merault, a Guise treasurer during the League. Her nephew, Louis Charpentier wed Jeanne Pinon, Jacques' sister. And Pinon knew the Charpentiers of Meaux quite well. For the Fouquet group, see Mongrédien, Poisons, pp. 203-207.

14. Mongrédien, Poisons, p. 99.

15. Quoted by Mongrédien, Poisons, p. 44.