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Seems to be a labour of love about the fragment of a grimoire attributed to .
From the preface:
"While conducting research for a long-term project on demonology, I came across an obscure French book titled Une sorcière au XVIIIe siècle: Marie-Anne de La Ville, 1680-1725 by Charles de Coynart. Within its pages, I found a fragment of a manuscript referred to as Grimoire pour les Conjurations (in English, Grimoire for Conjurations). This grimoire was reportedly discovered at the time of the arrest of Marie-Anne de la Ville, an 18th-century French sorceress. The manuscript intrigued me, as it offered a glimpse into the occult practices of a woman who lived at the crossroads of mysticism, danger, and societal upheaval.
Though the first seventeen pages of the grimoire were missing by the time of publication in 1902, enough of the text remained to grab my interest. I do not speak French fluently, but I was able to recognize many of the occult terms and names that appeared in the manuscript. Some of the Spirits described in the grimoire were familiar to me, though they were spelled differently than I had encountered in other sources. Others, however, were completely new, and their descriptions were unlike anything I had ever read before. As someone who has spent over two decades researching the names and characteristics of over ten thousand spirits, this was an enigma. It raised new questions and pushed my curiosity to its limits."
From the preface:
"While conducting research for a long-term project on demonology, I came across an obscure French book titled Une sorcière au XVIIIe siècle: Marie-Anne de La Ville, 1680-1725 by Charles de Coynart. Within its pages, I found a fragment of a manuscript referred to as Grimoire pour les Conjurations (in English, Grimoire for Conjurations). This grimoire was reportedly discovered at the time of the arrest of Marie-Anne de la Ville, an 18th-century French sorceress. The manuscript intrigued me, as it offered a glimpse into the occult practices of a woman who lived at the crossroads of mysticism, danger, and societal upheaval.
Though the first seventeen pages of the grimoire were missing by the time of publication in 1902, enough of the text remained to grab my interest. I do not speak French fluently, but I was able to recognize many of the occult terms and names that appeared in the manuscript. Some of the Spirits described in the grimoire were familiar to me, though they were spelled differently than I had encountered in other sources. Others, however, were completely new, and their descriptions were unlike anything I had ever read before. As someone who has spent over two decades researching the names and characteristics of over ten thousand spirits, this was an enigma. It raised new questions and pushed my curiosity to its limits."
