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Maria Theresa of Spain: The Face That Travelled Before She Did
Maria’s face had travelled through Europe before she left Spain to become a queen. Her portraits could be copied and sent abroad. Her inheritance was harder to dispose of.
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The Marquise de Brinvilliers: Poison, Torture and the Panic in Louis XIV's Paris
They began with water. At dawn in Paris, a woman was strapped down in the Conciergerie and forced to swallow water until her body became an instrument of pain all by itself. The question extraordinaire was not a hidden act. It was part of the script.