Marie de Gournay was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Grievance. She insisted that women should be educated. Gournay was also an editor and commentator of Michel de Montaigne. After Montaigne's death, Gournay edited and published his Essays.
The Aix-en-Provence possessions were a series of alleged cases of demonic possession occurring among the Ursuline nuns of Aix-en-Provence in 1611. Father Louis Gaufridi was accused and convicted of causing the possession by a pact with the devil, and he was tortured by strappado and his bones dislocated. He was then executed on April 1611 by strangulation and his body burned. This case provided the legal precedent for the conviction and execution of Urbain Grandier at Loudun more than 20 years later. This event led to possessions spreading to other convents and a witch burning in 1611.
The Pappenheimer Case centered around a family who were tried and executed for witchcraft in 1600 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The family were executed, along with accomplices they were forced to name under torture, after a show trial as scapegoats for a number of unsolved crimes committed years back in a display of extreme torture intended to deter the public from crime. The witch trial resulted in the death of twelve people: four of the Pappenheimer family and two of their accused accomplices in the first trial, followed by the remaining member of the family and five other accomplices in the second trial. The trial was of one of the most well-publicized witch trials in German history.
Adrienne d’Heur was an alleged French witch.
Helena Curtens was an alleged German witch. She was one of the last people executed for sorcery in Germany and the last person executed for this crime within the Rhine area. Her case is one of the most known cases in Europe, as she was long thought to be the last person executed for this crime in Germany.
Catherine Repond, was an alleged Swiss witch. She was one of the last people to be executed for sorcery in Switzerland prior to Anna Göldi.
Peronne Goguillon was an alleged French witch. She and the other women who were accused with her are regarded the last women to have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in France.
MS Genève is the oldest paddle ship of Lake Geneva. Originally a steamship, she became diesel powered in the 1930s.
Christian Fechner was a French film producer, screenwriter and director.
Claudia Colla, was the ducal mistress of the sovereign Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, by whom she was murdered.
The Channel Islands Witch Trials were a series of witch trials in the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey between 1562 and 1661.
Alexis Kohler, full name Arnaud Alexis Michel Kohler, is a French special adviser, senior official, and politician. Former director of the cabinet of Pierre Moscovici, then of Emmanuel Macron at the Ministry of Finance, he was appointed general secretary of the Élysée Palace on 14 May 2017.
Isabelle Graesslé is a French born theologian, feminist and former museum director, based in Geneva.
Lisa Mazzone is a Swiss politician and president of the Green Party. She was elected to the Swiss parliament on 18 October 2015, becoming Switzerland's youngest member of parliament in the process. Most of her political interventions to date have involved environmental issues.
François Turrettini was a Swiss Sinologist and publisher, active in the City of Geneva in the late 19th century. The descendant of an elite family involved in politics since the Italian theologist François Turrettini's refuge to the city republic in the 17th century. François Turrettini, the sinologist, founded the publishing firm "L'Atsumegusa" in Geneva that, for the first time in Europe, printed East Asian texts in Chinese characters, starting in 1871. His research and publishing projects relied on the assistance of Tschin Ta-Ni, a Chinese typesetter, who was the first Chinese person to obtain citizenship in the City and Republic of Geneva.
In the Holy Roman Empire, witch trials composed of the areas of the present day Germany, were the most extensive in Europe and in the world, both to the extent of the witch trials as such as well as to the number of executions.
The Witch trials in Denmark are poorly documented, with the exception of the region of Jylland in the 1609–1687 period. The most intense period in the Danish witchcraft persecutions was the great witch hunt of 1617–1625, when most executions took place, which was affected by a new witchcraft act introduced in 1617.
The Geneva witch trials of 1571 was the biggest witch trial in the Post-Reformation Geneva in present-day Switzerland, as well as the last big one.
Jeanne Brolliet was a Genevan woman who was executed for witchcraft.
Catherine Quicquat was a French woman who was executed for witchcraft.
