Antoine Vallot

Antoine Vallot (born in Arles in 1594 or 1595; died on 9 August 1671 at the Royal Garden in Paris) was a French doctor.

Very active and bold in the practice of medicine, he moved to settle in Paris and quickly became a sought-after doctor for the great figures of the time.

My letters were dispatched on the eighth of the same month, and the next day I took an oath of fidelity between the hands of His said Majesty, with a protest to employ all the lights that God has given me, all the experiences that I have acquired by long work and continual application to medicine for the space of twenty-eight years, and my own life for the preservation of such a precious life.

[2] Guy Patin accused Antoine Vallot of obtaining this appointment by paying 3,000 livres to Cardinal Mazarin.

[3] He was blamed for the death of Henrietta Maria of France in 1669, wife of King Charles I and daughter of Henry IV after prescribing her too many opiates of which she overdosed on.