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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(4):397-409; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqm064
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© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

Silencing the Supernatural: La Devineresse and the Affair of the Poisons

Julia Prest

Department of French
Yale University
PO Box 208251
New Haven, CT 06520–8251
USA

julia.prest{at}yale.edu

  Abstract

Thomas Corneille and Jean Donneau de Visé's comedy La Devineresse ou les faux enchantements occupies a paradoxical position within the wider story of the Affair of the Poisons, for it sought simultaneously to draw on the anxieties of the Parisian public and to reassure them. While the play demystifies the occult, its lessons cannot neatly be transferred to the real events that were its inspiration, and the question of the supernatural is left uncomfortably open.

Key Words: Corneille, Thomas • Donneau de Visé, Jean • supernatural • Devineresse, La • Affair of the Poisons • La Voisin • Louis XIV • Sevigné, Mme de • Mercure galant


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