Episode 118: Ambition (ad-free)
Added 2019-07-08 08:00:02 +0000 UTCSome people have a fire inside them that drives them to do great things. New discoveries, breakthrough inventions, or astonishing accomplishments. But some have harnessed that passion for something darker, and they’re actions have left a painful mark on history.
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Further Reading
- Anne Somerset, The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (St. Martin's Press 2003).
- Holly Tucker, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris (W. W. Norton 2018).
- Lisa Hilton, Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France (Little, Brown and Company, 2002).
- Antonia Fraser, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Anchor, 2007), pp. 179-185.
- Lynn Wood Mollenauer, Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France (Penn State University Press, 2007).
