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Trois-Eschelles
Des Eschelles Manseau, also known as Trois-Eschelles (died 1571), was a French magician who was executed for witchcraft. Biography Trois-Eschelles was from Maine (province), Maine. He appears to have been performing as a magician and claimed to be able to perform magic. He performed before the king, Charles IX of France, at the royal court, where he attracted a lot of attention. He was however exiled from the royal court by the king. He was arrested and charged with sorcery. He was accused of having performed "impossible acts". Gaspard II de Coligny commented that Trois-Eschelles was arrested after having poisoned the bed of two male courtiers. He was sentenced to death of witchcraft. The king pardoned him on condition that he revealed his accomplices. He exposed 150 people for witchcraft by identifying the Devil's mark on their bodies. Only a handful of those people he identified where actually arrested and executed, among them Honoré or Honorat de Quinze-Vingts. The king brou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bodin
Jean Bodin (; ; – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. Bodin lived during the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and wrote against the background of religious conflict in France. He seemed to be a nominal Catholic throughout his life but was critical of papal authority over governments. Known for his theory of sovereignty, he favoured the strong central control of a national monarchy as an antidote to factional strife. Towards the end of his life he wrote a dialogue among different religions, including representatives of Judaism, Islam and natural theology in which all agreed to coexist in concord, but was not published. He was also an influential writer on demonology, as his later years were spent during the peak of the early modern witch trials. Life Jean Bodin was successively a friar, academic, professional lawyer, and political adviser. An excursion as a politician having proved a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
