When, two thousand years before our era, the Chaldean mages and the high priests of Egypt on clear nights pierced the starry sky with their patient gaze, did they read there that after thirty centuries a grave magistrate and chief of police would fight their descendants by means of a fairy extravaganza, with trap-doors and puns and transformation scenes? INDEX Alacocque, Marguerite, 121. Bachimont, Robert de, alchemist, 137. Barbier, archer of the guard, 55, 56, 58. Bazin de Bezons, 163. Belot, François, poisoner, 331. Black Mass, 131, 132, 155 ff. Bocager, law professor, 31, 32. Bodin's _Démonomanie des Sorciers_, 122-126. Boileau, 348. Boscher, Alexander, physician, 319. Bosse, Marie, sorceress, 119, 129, 172, 173, 179. Bossuet, 126, 219, 220, 313, 329, 333. Boucherat, Louis, 163. Bouillon, Duchess de, 275-279. Bourdelot, Abbé, physician, 318, 323, 334. Boursault, journalist, 363. Briancourt, lover of Madame de Brinvilliers, 19, 24-32, 35, 47, 68, 69. Brinvilliers, Antoine Gobelin de, 4, 33, 34, 51. Brinvilliers, Madame de, her career, 1-116. Brissart, Marie, 152-154. Brunet, Madame, 177-179. Bussy-Rabutin, 173-176, 239. Cadelan, Pierre, banker, 140, 141. Castelmelhor, Count of, 137, 138. Chamberlain, Hugh, physician, 319. Chambre Ardente, the, 163-180, 275, 279, 291, 296, 302, 304. Chasteuil, F. Galaup de, alchemist, 133-142. Chevigny, Father de, 80, 93. Cluet, Sergeant, 38, 40. Colbert, 50, 257, 290. Coligny, Madame de, 173, 174. Corneille, Thomas, 361. Creuillebois, Sergeant, 36, 38, 39, 41. Croissy, Marquis de, ambassador in England, 50. D'Aubray, Antoine, brother of Madame de Brinvilliers, 18, 19, 20. D'Aubray, Antoine, father of Madame de Brinvilliers, 3, 13. Delamarre, attorney for Madame de Brinvilliers, 40, 41. Descarrières, political agent, 53. Desgrez, captain of police, 9, 52, 53, 107, 111, 119. Desoeillets, Mademoiselle, 221, 222, 252-254, 286. Donneau de Visé, dramatist, 361-365. Dreux, Madame de, 166-168. Du Parc, Mademoiselle, 349-359. Exili, Italian poisoner, 9-11. Filastre, Françoise, sorceress, 184, 249. Fontanges, Duchess de, mistress of Louis XIV, 237, 240, 250. France, Anatole, on 'Madame,' 334, 336. Galet, Louis, poisoner, 234. Glaser, Christophe, chemist, 10, 12. Godin, _alias_ Sainte-Croix, _q.v._ Guibourg, Abbé, 155, 215-218, 227-231. Guillaume, executioner, 114. Harvillier, Jeanne, witch, 123, 124. Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orleans, 313-345. Hocque, Pierre, sorcerer, 126-128. Huysmans, J. K., on philosopher's stone, 138. Joly, sorceress, 167, 168. La Chaboissière, valet, 142, 143, 198, 304. La Chaussée, valet, 17, 18, 19, 21, 45, 47-49. La Fayette, Madame de, 314, 315, 320, 324-327. Lamoignon, President of High Court, 65, 68, 69, 76. La Reynie, Nicolas de, lieutenant of police, 12, 49, 52, 53, 121, 132, 144, 156, 176, 181, 182, 194, 202, 203-205, 231, 234, 245-247, 265-312, 361-374. La Rivière, 173, 176.