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Podcast: Historical True Crime
Episode: La Voisin: France's Killer Witch
Description: Catherine Monvoisin was the wife of a jeweller and silk merchant. She had a comfortable home in the fashionable Villeneuve Sur Gravois neighbourhood in the centre of Paris. She was a mother, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a lover of the arts. But she was also a witch, one who nearly overthrew the French aristocracy and almost succeeded in slaying a king.
Source Materials:
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/la-voisin-frances-murderous-fortune-teller
https://partylike1660.com/catherine-monvoisin-fortune-teller-sorceress-and-poisoner/
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/black-masses-la-voisin-how-fortune-teller-became-murderess-french-royal-court-021057
https://theodora.com/encyclopedia...