Hangman and the Witch

Madame de Montespan, the Maitresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angelique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angelique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...