Étienne Guibourg
The Abbé Étienne Guibourg (c. 1610 – January 1686) was a French Roman Catholic abbé who was involved in the Affair of the Poisons.
He was the sacristan of the Saint-Marcel church (destroyed during the French Revolution[1]) at Saint-Denis, and formerly the chaplain to the Comte de Montgomery. He claimed to be the illegitimate son of Henri de Montmorency. He had a long-term mistress named Jeanne Chanfrain, with whom he had several children.
In 1680 Françoise Filastre, under interrogation in connection with the poison affair, claimed that Guibourg had performed Black Masses for Catherine Monvoisin around 1672-3. Guibourg was arrested and confessed to this and other crimes. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sequestration and died in prison in 1686.
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- ^ from Saint Denis: a town in the Middle Ages: The church, which was destroyed during the French Revolution, was described as being "the most beautiful of the parish churches of the town of Saint-Denis".
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- Anne Somerset - The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (St. Martin's Press (October 12, 2003) ISBN 0-312-33017-0)
- Hugh Noel Williams - Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV, 1910.
- Excerpts from Bastille trial records of Guibourg and LaVoisin (French and English translation)
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