The Case of Poisons

Madame de Montespan the Maîtresseentitre of Louis XIV has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty MarieAngélique Scorailles Having had enough of the situation the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin a woman known as a fortune teller a doctor a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons Some time later MarieAngélique now Duchess of Fontanges dies mysteriously aged only twenty