L'affaire des 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...

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 

• The Case of Poisons