Note 543 — Chapter II · THE WITCH TRIALS
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In 1609 a terrible commission scourged the regions round Bordeaux and Labourt in Western France. See P. de l’Ancre, Tableau de l’inconstance den Mauvais Anges, 1612. Under Louis XIV. the lurid Chambre Ardente was set up in 1679, and lasted till 1682. La Reynie, the Lieutenant-General of Police, was an active inquisitor. See F. Funck-Brentano, Princes and Poisoners; G. Maidment, trans. London, 1901.