In the Beginning Was the Word

Le Chevalier D'Eon · Episode 24 · “In the Beginning Was the Word”

18th Century, France. Lia de Beaumont, loyal servant of Versailles and its King, Louis XV, is found dead in the river Seine. Floating inside a coffin, on which the word "Psalms" was written, her body had been poisoned by mercury, thus preserving decay. According to the Church, the soul that...