By the time the Chambre Ardente finally disbanded, 34 poisoners and practitioners of the occult had been executed, two had died under torture, a marshal of France had been put on trial, and some of the most prominent courtiers at Versailles had been forced to flee abroad. Above all, the Affair hastened the fall of Louis XIV's powerful mistress, Mme de Montespan, and her replacement by the even more formidable Mme de Maintenon, who dominated the king until the end of his life.

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