![]() ![]() Minister Louvois now promised Lesage his freedom if he made a complete confession. In July-August 1680, after the execution of La Voisin on 22 February, her daughter Marguerite Monvoisin, made a full confession, revealing the client list of her mother, which included the king's mistress Madame de Montespan, and the aphrodisiacs, black masses and murder of the king ordered by Montespan. He confessed to having performed magical tasks for the organisation, but stated that they had all been cons, and that he had fooled his colleagues as well as the clients. He was arrested alongside abbé Mariotte on the order of the monarch himself, charged with having officiated at black masses. Some time later, he retrieved the ball from the flames and claimed that the Devil had read it.Īdam Lesage was arrested as a part of the network of La Voisin during the Poison Affair in 1679. He asked the client to write down their wish on a piece of paper, which he embedded in a ball of wax, and then burned. His most common task was to post wishes to the Devil. Lesage's main task in the organisation was to perform magic for the customers. She initially agreed, but changed her mind before the murder was completed and forced Lesage to abort the whole plan. Lesage was the lover of La Voisin, and despite being already married, he promised to marry her if she became a widow, and persuaded her to kill her husband. The same year, Lesage was condemned to the galleys for having participated in black masses he was freed in 1672 by the connections of La Voisin and resumed his position in her organisation. In 1667, he officiated, alongside abbé Mariette in a black mass, arranged by La Voisin for the royal mistress Madame de Montespan, where she asked for the king to love her by the help of Satan. He later moved to Paris and was there employed in the organisation of La Voisin, an organisation of occultists who also provided poisons, with the task to perform alleged magical rituals. Lesage came from Venoix near Caen and was originally a wool trader. He was one of the chief accused in the famous Poison Affair. April 1683), was a French professional occultist and alleged sorcerer. ( November 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īdam Lesage (né Cœuret, also called Dubuisson fl. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. ![]()
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