La Voisin is sentenced to death for…
February 1680 CE
La Voisin is sentenced to death for witchcraft and poisoning, and burned at the stake on February 22, 1680.
Marshal Montmorency-Bouteville is briefly jailed in 1680, but is later released and becomes a captain of the guard.
Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert helps to hush things up.
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Catherine Deshayes, "La Voisin", 17th-century print of her portrait held by a winged devil.
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West Europe
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