Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In the glittering court of Louis XIV, where power, beauty, ambition, and fear moved behind silk curtains and gilded doors, one woman became the centre of a scandal so poisonous that it threatened the throne itself.Catherine Monvoisin, known to history as La Voisin, was a fortune-teller, healer, abortion provider, alleged sorceress, and suspected poisoner in seventeenth-century Paris. To some, she was a cunning woman who gave desperate clients what the Church and the law denied them. To others, she was the most dangerous witch who ever lived.Her name became infamous during the Affair of the Poisons, a vast investigation into murder, black masses, aristocratic corruption, and the secret traffic in powders, potions, and death. The scandal reached into the highest levels of French society, drawing in nobles, priests, occult practitioners, poisoners, and even those close to the king’s private life.This book examines the real La Voisin behind the legend. It follows her rise through the hidden world of Parisian divination, her connections with clients from every level of society, the accusations that surrounded her, and the machinery of interrogation and justice that finally brought her to the stake. It also explores the darker questions left behind by the case: how much was truth, how much was fear, and how much was created by a society terrified of women who operated beyond its control?Written as a serious work of historical nonfiction, La Voisin: The Most Dangerous Witch That Ever Lived is a detailed account of witchcraft, poison, scandal, and power in the age of the Sun King. It is not a fantasy of broomsticks and curses, but the story of a real woman whose life became entangled with murder, superstition, politics, and one of the most disturbing criminal investigations in European history.
