The Affair of the Poisons (1955)
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique 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 Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...
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Cast
- Danielle Darrieux — Madame de Montespan
- Viviane Romance — Catherine Deshayes, dite La Voisin
- Paul Meurisse — l'abbé Guibourg
- Anne Vernon — Hermine des Œillets
- Maurice Teynac — Nicolas de La Reynie
- Pierre Mondy — le capitaine François Desgrez
- Roldano Lupi — Lesage
- Christine Carrère — Angélique de Fontanges
- Albert Rémy — le bourreau Guillaume
- Renaud Mary — Henri de Montespan
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