Note 159 — LETTERS TO MADAME DE GRIGNAN[11] FROM 1671 TO 1690. (continued 4)
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La Voisin, La Vigoreux, and a priest of the name of Le Sage, known at Paris as conjurers and casters of nativities, added to this jugglery the secret practice of poisons, which they denominated succession powder. They did not fail to accuse those who applied to them for one thing, of having had recourse to them for another. It is thus Marshal de Luxembourg was exposed, by his intendant Bonard, for having made some extravagant exorcism with Le Sage, for the purpose of recovering his lost papers. The vindictive Louvois seized the opportunity to ruin, or, at least, to torment him.