A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIVIn the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphal Lvy, a French Jew, was convicted, tortured, and executed for an act he did not commit, a fiction deriving from medieval anti Jewish myth: the ritual murder of a Christian boy to obtain blood for satanic rituals. When Lvy was accused of the ritual murder, it was the first accusation of blood libel for a century. Lvy's