Le corps empoisonné à travers les témoignages Regard sur la pratique des cours souveraines des xvii^e et xviii^e siècles

Legal archives bear witness to the importance of testimony in criminal enquiries into poisoning. They elucidate the causes of the crime and reasons for which poisoning was resorted to, and they help imagine who the perpetrator might be. Thanks to these documents, we also have evidence of the reactions provoked by the discovery of poisoning, and can thus envisage the poisoned body and the effect it produces on people.