Romani (adventurer)

Robert de Baldoque, also Romani (d.c. 1683) was a French adventurer involved in the Affair of the Poisons. He was accused of having conspired with his glover Catherine Monvoisin to assassinate Angélique de Fontanges with poisoned gloves, while he was valet-de-chambre to a lady of the court. It was further claimed that he planned to assassinate Louis XIV by handing him a petition impregnated with poison. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sequestration in 1682.

References

• 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)
• Jay Robert Nash - Look for the woman: a narrative encyclopedia of female poisoners, kidnappers, thieves, extortionists, terrorists, swindlers, and spies, from Elizabethan times to the present (M. Evans, 1981, ISBN 0871313367)
• H Noel Williams - Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV (Wildside Press, 2009, ISBN 1434451267)
• Montague Summers -- Geography of Witchcraft (Kessinger Publishing, reprinted 2003, ISBN 0766145360)