The Case of Poisons (movie)
L'Affaire des poisons- User score: 6.7
- Production country: France
- Producer: Henri Decoin
- Production companies: Franco London Films, Excelsa Film
- Genre: History, Crime, Drama, Horror
- Release date: 11/4/1955
- Run time: 103 min.
Movie description
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...
