"The next day," says Madame de Sevigne, "people were looking for the charred bones of Madame de Brinvilliers , because they said she was a saint."
In 1814, M. d'Offemont , father of the present occupier of the castle where the Marquise de Brinvilliers poisoned her father, frightened at the approach of all the allied troops, contrived in one of the towers several hiding-places, where he shut up his silver and such other valuables as were to be found in this lonely country in the midst of the forest of Laigue . The foreign troops were passing backwards and forwards at Offemont , and after a three months' occupation retired to the farther side of the frontier.
Then the owners ventured to take out the various things that had been hidden; and tapping the walls, to make sure nothing had been o
