The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset

The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV

Anne Somerset

400 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime challenging dark informative slow-paced
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The Affair of the Poisons, as it was known, was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' and which 'horrified the whole of Europe' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of the Sun King, King Louis XIV in the late 17th century...

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