With La Voisin were associated two priests, Le Sage and Le
Vigoureux, who lived with her, and assisted her in her necromantic
exhibitions, which were visited, believed in, and richly rewarded
by some of the foremost people of the Court. These necromantic
exhibitions were in reality a cover to darker crimes.
It was long the popular belief in France, that Cardinal Bonzy got
from La Voisin the means of ridding himself of sundry persons who
stood in the way of his ecclesiastical preferment, or to whom he had
to pay pensions in his quality of Archbishop of Narbonne. The
Duchesse de Bouillon and the Countess of Soissons, mother of the
famous Prince Eugene, were also accused of trafficking with that
terrible woman, and were banished from the kingdom in consequence,
while a royal duke, Francois de Montmorency, was also suspected of
dealings with La Voisin.
The Chambre Ardente struck right and left. Desgrais, chief of the
police, by a crafty ruse, penetrated into the secret circle of La
Voisin, and she, with a crowd of associates, perished in the fires
of the Place de Greve.
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