Henry Boguet (1550 in
Pierrecourt,
Haute-Saône
Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.[jurist
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and judge of
Saint-Claude (1596–1616) in the County of Burgundy. His renown is to a large degree based on his fame as a demonologist for his ''Discours exécrable des Sorciers'' (1602) which was reprinted twelve times in twenty years.
1550 births
1619 deaths
17th-century French judges
Witchcraft in France
Demonologists
People from Haute-Saône
16th-century French judges
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