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Tidied up for publication, with numerous autograph corrections and plates.<\/p>\n<p>The book was published by Mercure de France in 1911, with 20 illustrations that are not mentioned in the manuscript. Arguing that Catherine de M\u00e9dicis indulged in both esoteric practices and homicidal machinations, Defrance organises his argument as follows:<\/p>\n<p>i. Sterility of Catherine, Dr. Jean Fernel magical beverages.<br \/>\nii. The astrological oracles of Luc Gauri and Nostradamus, the death of Henry II and Montgomercy<br \/>\niv. The Magic Mirror<br \/>\niii. The death of Francis II, the coronation of Charles IX and the astrologer Simeonivii. The Oracle of the Bloody Head and the death of Charles IX<br \/>\nv. The bewitchment and assassination of Protestant leaders<br \/>\nvi. The bewitchment of Charles IX and Cosmo Ruggieni<br \/>\nvii. The oracle of the bloody head and the death of Charles IX<br \/>\nviii. other forms of katherine's supersition and the influence of occultism on the minds of her sons<br \/>\nix. Astronomical omens for 1989 and the death of Catherine de Medici<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contrary to the claims of various historians who have set the record straight, it was indeed to a darker ideal that Catherine dedicated her soul, the whole of her haughty Florentine soul. It was only before the astrolabe, magic mirrors and goetic circles that she bowed her sovereign pride. Through the occult sciences, she became a wife, mother and dictator, by turns kind or cruel, deceitful or sincere, but always skilfully enigmatic and mysterious (p. 17).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The manuscript is dedicated to \"<em>to my friend L\u00e9on Malet, Librarian of the Senate\".<\/em> and accompanied by two remnants of envelopes from the Mercure de France addressed to the author.<br \/>\nPrinter's marks and small engraving of a devil pasted to the first leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Eug\u00e8ne Defrance (1874-19?) published 6 other works, including an essay on Charlotte Corday (1909) and a book on the French Revolution. <em>History of street lighting in Paris (<\/em>1904).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIT, 125 sheets<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"boutique":[198],"cat_gallery":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1433,476,266],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17391","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","theme-lettres","auteurs-defrance_eugene","boutique-librairie","catalogue-025-varia-nov-2024","editeur-mercure-de-france","product_cat-histoire","product_cat-manuscrit-complet","product_cat-sorcellerie","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"boutique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/boutique?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"cat_gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_gallery?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}