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...

• DirectorHenri Decoin
• Release4 November 1955
• Genre
  History / Crime
• Duration1h 43m
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  6.7
  3 reviews
• Productions

  Franco London Films, Excelsa Film