Documents a series of high-level murders committed by women in France's seventeenth-century royal court who obtained poisons from Paris's underworld, discussing the investigative commission that exposed the killings and uncovered a threat to King Louis XIV. 20,000 first printing.
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The Affair of the Poisons is a beautifully researched account of this extraordinary case...With her customary intelligence and lucidity, Anne Somerset meticulously unravels this complex, fascinating affair and presents an informed opinion on what really happened. (Lucy Moore BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE (November))
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