Note 135 — Chapter XX · LOUIS XIV, SPAIN, AND HOLLAND

[The chevalier de Lorraine and a maître d’hôtel of Monsieur, Morel by name, were among those suspected of poison. We have seen in the preceding chapter how epidemic that crime became about that time. However, the theory of natural death, the result of an abscess of the liver, hastened by domestic troubles, is now generally accepted as the cause of Madame’s death. Daresteb says it was due to cholera morbus. Madame was only twenty-six years old.]