Marie Antoinette
(See Cagliostro.) Marigny, Enguerrand de: A minister of Louis X., king of France. His wife and her sister were accused of having recourse to enchantments to harm the king, his brother Charles, and other barons, with the intention of freeing Enguessand, who was imprisoned. The ladies were arrested. Jacques Dulot, a magician, who was believed to have helped in these sorceries, was also committed to prison, where he took his own life, after his wife had been burnt. Dulot's suicide was considered a conclusive proof of Marigny's guilt, and the ex-minister was tried, condemned, and hanged on a gibbet which he himself had had erected during his term of office. The tide of popular opinion turned at the sight of his misfortune, and the judges dared not condemn his wife and sister-in-law. The king himself repented of having abandoned Marigny to his enemies, and in his will left a sum of money to his family.