The Affair of the Poisons (French: affaire des poisons) was a major murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV. Between 1677 and 1682...

comte de Toulouse, in 1678. Both were to be legitimised in 1681. The Affaire des Poisons, which erupted in September 1677, was to be the beginning of the...

the central figure in the famous affaire des poisons. Her purported organization of commissioned black magic and poison murder was suspected to have killed...

accused in 1679 in the Affaire des Poisons of having plotted with La Voisin to poison Louise de La Vallière, of having poisoned her husband, three servants...

French Roman Catholic abbé and occultist who was involved in the affaire des poisons, during the reign of Louis XIV. He has been variously described as...

socially and politically compromised in the notorious Affaire des Poisons, allegedly for planning to poison her husband in order to marry her nephew Louis Joseph...

end because of Madame de Montespan's possible involvement in the Affaire des poisons. Her older siblings Louis Auguste and Louise Françoise had been legitimised...

Olympia Mancini, most notorious of the Mazarinettes, intrigante of the affaire des poisons and exiled in succession from both France and Spain. He also the...

Montespan, who had fallen out of favour with the king after the Affaire des Poisons, did not attend her son's wedding. The duc du Maine received a gift...

astrology. It proved a fatal relationship. She became embroiled in the "Affaire des poisons"; suspicions abounded of her involvement in her husband's premature...