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The first witch trial believed to be held at Le Châtelet in Paris, in 1390, ended with the execution of Jeanne de Brigue.During the first half of the 16th century, a few cases of witch trials are noted to have taken place in France.
The Normandy witch trials of 1669-1670, which took place in the province of Normandy in France, belong to the most famed of French witch hunts.In parallel with the witch trials of Guyenne and Bearn in 1670-72, it was one of the two last great witch hunts in France.
Catherine Quicquat (died 1448) was a French woman who was executed for witchcraft. [1]She is one of the most well documented of the victims of the Valais witch trials.Her case was one of the first in the Pays de Vaud.
Hanged during the Salem witch trials; her children had claimed she was a witch while undergoing torture. Martha Corey: 1620s–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Eastey: 1634–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Parker: d. 1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged ...
The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634. A convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been visited and possessed by demons.
The Affair of the Poisons (French: affaire des poisons, pronounced [afɛʁ de pwazɔ̃]) was a major murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV. Between 1677 and 1682, a number of prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft. The scandal reached into the inner circle ...
French people executed for witchcraft (26 P) Pages in category "Witch trials in France" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Catherine Cadière, or Marie-Catherine Cadière (12 November 1709 in Toulon, year of death unknown), was an alleged French witch. The trial of Catherine Cadière in 1731 is one of the most famous of its kind in French history, and have been referred to many times in literature, notably in the pornographic novel Thérèse philosophe.