Compared to Sirius, who had not had time to say anything in court, Marshal Luxembourg had practically talked without pause at the Flame Court.
His trial lasted fourteen months. He was acquitted of every charge, while his secretary was thrown into prison instead.
The Affair of the Poisons was not merely a simple palace struggle. It was entangled with God, the devil, blood, fear, and witchcraft. From 1679 to 1682, a total of 442 people were accused. Naturally, those referred to the powerful and noble; many more commoners implicated in it were never recorded. They were sentenced to hard labor, building a magnificent palace—Versailles—in marshland utterly unsuitable for construction.
After Mary of Medici married into France, unable to find any enjoyment in the Louvre Museum and homesick for her homeland, she had a palace built in imitation of Florence's Pitti Palace, with the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance.
There was a pool in front of the palace, surrounded by lounge chairs, where many people usually basked in the sun.
Now, the water still reflected blue skies and white clouds, and a ship was sailing across the sea.
Besides hearing slave cases, Lord Stowell was also a judge of the Admiralty Court and a member of the House of Commons. He achieved little in politics, devoting all his energy to judicial work. The fishing laws he drafted laid the foundation for British fishing law. At the same time, he and Marshall, an American expert in international law, established the Anglo-Saxon Capture Law system, which had practically become international law, as dictated by Britain's maritime hegemony.
The capture referred to here was not the catching of fish from the sea, but the seizure of cargo ships, especially those of neutral nations. Some neutral nations practiced armed neutrality like Sweden, while others relied