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The Affair of the Poisons (1955)
Genres: History, Crime, Drama, Horror
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...
- Danielle Darrieux as Madame de Montespan
- Viviane Romance as Catherine Deshayes, dite La Voisin
- Paul Meurisse as l'abbé Guibourg
- Anne Vernon as Hermine des Œillets
- Maurice Teynac as Nicolas de La Reynie
- Pierre Mondy as le capitaine François Desgrez
- Roldano Lupi as Lesage
- Christine Carrère as Angélique de Fontanges