Baneful Sorceries or The Countess Bewitched
by Joan Sanders
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Very entertaining novel about an arranged marriage, witchcraft, and murder in the time of the Louis, the Sun King, in France during the time of the Affair of the Poisons.
I've read this novel at least six or seven times; also recommended is one of the author's other books, The Marquis.
I've read this novel at least six or seven times; also recommended is one of the author's other books, The Marquis.
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- Canonical title
- Baneful Sorceries or The Countess Bewitched
- Original title
- Baneful Sorceries or The Countess Bewitched
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Margot-Catherine de Sorbier, la Comtesse du Roc-sur-Besbre (née Renard); Jean-Achille Antoine de Sorbier, le Comte du Roc-sur-Besbre; Jacques Lelaunde; Le Chevalier de Beuvron; Effriat; Caro, la Comtesse de Vesey (show all 32); Antoine, le Comte de Vesey; Lucrèce, la Marquise de Mancini; Hercule, le Marquis de Mancini; Catherine Monvoisin; Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, la Marquise de Brinvilliers; M. de Sainte-Croix; M. de Briancourt; Eulalie-Marguerite-Anne-Hortense Renard; M. Renard; Mme. Renard; Sophie; Alphonse; Mostel; Berthe; Paul; Le Chevalier du Fouarre; La Chaussée; M. Auger; Father Arnoldi; Father Girard; Father Tarnac; Toby; Rageuse; César; Cléopatre; Pretty Girl
- Important places
- Paris, France; Roc-sur-Besbre, France
- Important events
- Death of Henriette, la Duchesse d'Orléans (1670-06-30); L'affaire des poisons (1677–1682); Affair of the Poisons
- Epigraph
- See next the wretches who the needle left,
The shuttle and the spindle, and became
Diviners: baneful sorceries they wrought
With herbs and images.
Dante
The Inferno
Canto xx - First words
- Beauty, terror, and folly—all these belonged to my youth, to adventures combined at their most intense during the first (alas, only) year of my marriage to the Comte du Roc-su-Besbre.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Jean-Achille, Jean-Achille," I whispered, and began to sob—the sound of my weeping lost in his groans and screams.
- Blurbers
- Caspary, Vera
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54301 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
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