King Louis XIV was upset that so many members of the French nobility were dying off in a hurry. It started in the late 1660s. Autopsies showed the victims’ insides were blackened, as it they were rotting. Were they poisoned? Was it witchcraft? At the time, there was only a short leap from alchemy to witchcraft to crime.
The king established a special tribunal to investigate a prosecute the murders.The “Affair of the Poisons,” as it came to be known, is a misleading name for one of the largest…
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