Film
The Affair of the Poisons
1955Directed by Henri Decoin
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
About The Affair of the Poisons
- History
- Crime
- Drama
- Horror
Synopsis
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...
- Director
- Henri Decoin
- Writers
- Albert Valentin
- Georges Neveux
- Henri Decoin
- Original title
- L'Affaire des poisons
