#Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin

[voluptuarian]

13 days of witches: the witch-poisoner, La Voison

"...let me have / A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear / As will disperse itself through all the veins / That the life-weary taker may fall dead." — William Shakespeare

Louis XIV, "the Sun King," is in his ascendancy, while the aristocracy continues to revel, Icarus-like, in their dwindling power. Against the background of their contest, Catherine Deshayes, "La Voison," merchant, midwife, and fortune teller, reaches the zenith of her own, less official, influence. Rising from humble beginnings, she has become wealthy and powerful providing her services to the dissolute upper class as a sorceress and poisoner. Now her vast network of agents, allies, and clients spans the breadth of society-- including, perhaps, the king's own mistress. At the hands of La Voison or those of her many underlings, inconvenient relatives are dispensed with; love potions find their way into the cups of unwitting suitors; arcane sorceries are worked at unholy masses; an attempt is made even on the life of the king himself. Eventually the reach of the poisoner-witch extends too far, and the Sun King's agents seek her out. But even the arrest and execution of La Voison herself is not enough to stamp out her ring of crime; her allies are myriad and in low places, and while many are caught, more escape through their inconsequence; the grandiose status of her customers, however, proves too much even for the king, and the case of the Affair of Poisons is officially closed to avoid bringing unbearable scandal down on the nation.

[100witches]

80- “La Voisin”. Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin (1640— February 22nd, 1680).

Catherine Monvoisin was an infamous French poisoner, fortune teller, abortionist, and black mass procurer to the aristocracy of King Louis XIV of France. After marrying a failed jeweler, Catherine began supporting her family through palm reading and fortune telling. She had also acted as a midwife and was able to administer abortions. She was instilled with the entrepreneurial spirit and developed a network of fortunate tellers throughout Paris. Through the business, she sold poisons, aphrodisiacs, and provided other medical and magical services for profit. From her wealthy clients and the support of the aristocracy, she grew to immense fortune and fame.

“La Voisin”, as she became known, claimed to have excelled at the art of divination as a gift from God. Her fortune telling and prophecy was derived from palmistry and studying characteristics of peoples faces. She began to realize that all of her clients wanted to know similar things, mostly about love and death, both lucrative categories. In the beginning, she would tell her clients to purchase amulets or potions, and over time began to offer more complex rituals. This culminated in her administration of a black mass, in which her clients would pray to Satan. The altar at this ritual was usually a naked woman, and was purportedly herself during at least one occasion.

Catherine had a passionate interest in science, alchemy and medicine. As a midwife, she illegally provided abortions through her business and network of associates. The natural alliance between abortion and witchcraft, and the women capable of doing both, is not by chance. In a time when abortion was taboo, illegal, and driven underground, it was able to find camaraderie with those who practiced other forbidden arts. Occult in the original sense of the term means “hidden” and secret knowledge, which abortion had always been. Under the cloak of the occult, La Voisin was able to provide abortions to the highest members of society, for only whom the knowledge was affordable.

Her most prominent client was Madame de Montespan, a French noblewoman and mistress to King Louis XIV. At one point, Montespan hired Catherine to perform a black mass to make King Louis fall more in love. Within the year, Montespan became the King’s official royal mistress, and Catherine’s employment was secured. As King Louis continued to have other mistresses and love interests, La Voisin was hired to poison the King. She agreed to the plot, but her plan failed and she was arrested. Catherine was questioned about her activities in an interrogation which implicated the upper levels of the aristocracy. This became part of a major scandal called the “Affair of the Poisons” in which 36 people were executed and hundreds more arrested and implicated, for poisoning, witchcraft, and murder.

La Voisin was able to financially support her husband, mother, and children through her occult business. She was known to have several lovers, including an executioner, alchemist, architect, magician, and count. Her organization of poisoners and black magicians is estimated to have killed between 1,000 and 2,500 people. La Voisin was put on trial on February 17th, 1680, and was promptly convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake a few days later, becoming one of France’s most infamous serial killers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Poisons

[venicepearl]

Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as "La Voisin" (c. 1640 – 22 February 1680), was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner, and professional provider of alleged sorcery. She was the head of a network of fortune tellers in Paris providing poison, aphrodisiacs, abortion, purported magical services and the arranging of black masses, with clients among the aristocracy, and became the central figure in the famous affaire des poisons. Her purported organization of commissioned black magic and poison murder was suspected to have killed 1,000 people, but it is believed that upwards of 2,500 people might have been murdered.

[little-witchys-garden]

La Voisin

Life and death: 1640 - 1680

Catherine Deshayes who's last name was later turned to Monvoisin after marrige was known as La Voisin, lived in France in the mid-1600s.

{ tw/cw: she also preformed abortions }

Her husband's trade business led to bankruptcy, La Voisin supported the family as the main bread winner by practising chiromancy and face-reading mainly. In addition to being a fortune teller, she was also active as a midwife, which developed into providing { tw/cw: abortions } . she practiced medicine, mixed potions and poisons, told all sorts of different fortunes types , and arranged black masses, where clients could confer with the Devil.

 Her business as a fortune teller gradually developed into manufacturing and selling purported magical objects and potions, arranging black masses and selling aphrodisiacs and poison to profit from her clients' wishes upon their future

Her spouse was Antoine Monvoisin and her daughter Marie Marguerite Mon(t)voisin.

She was one of the heads of the affaire des poisons aka a cult who poisoned many members of the French aristocracy, and who had planned to poison King Louis XIV.

She was known to have at least six lovers: the executioner Andre Guillaume, Monsieur Latour, vicomte de Cousserans, the count de Labatie, the alchemist Blessis, the architect Fauchet and though the main lover was the magician Adam Lesage.

It's also believed that she had many lady lovers, many think she had a hate love relationship with Marie Bosse.

Her most famous client was Madame de Montespan, the King’s mistress. It was by Montespan’s order that La Voisin attempted to poison the King, for his infidelity.

In the late 1670s, fear of poisoning and witchcraft reached a fever pitch in the streets of France, and many successful fortune-tellers and poisoners, including La Voisin, were arrested. She was burned publicly after being convicted of witchcraft in 1680. She died at aged 39–40.

{ I think I'll add her to heroes of history since she was a open polyamory witch that had serious power in a time that women often didn't. Though I'll also have another called called witchy history.}

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[tipsycad147]

Famous Witches - La Voisin (c.1640 - 1680)

Catherine Monvoisin (maiden name Catherine Deshayes, and popularly known as "La Voisin"), was a French sorceress, who was one of the chief personages in the infamous “affaire des poisons” which disgraced the reign of Louis XIV.

Her husband, Monvoisin, was an unsuccessful jeweller, and she took to practising divinationtechniques such as chiromancy and face-reading in order to retrieve her and her husband's fortunes. She gradually added the practice of witchcraft, in which she had the help of a renegade priest, Etienne Guibourg, whose part was the celebration of the "black mass," a parody of the Christian mass.

She practised medicine, especially midwifery, procured abortions and provided love powders, potions and poisons. She was promiscuous throughout her marriage, and one of her chief accomplices was one of her lovers, the magician Lesage (real name, Adam Coeuret). Her love powders included such ingredients as the bones of toads, the teeth of moles, Spanish flies, iron filings, human blood and the dust of human remains.

Gradually, the great ladies of Paris flocked to La Voisin, who accumulated enormous wealth. Her clients included: Olympe Mancini, the Comtesse de Soissons (who sought the death of the king's mistress, Louise de La Vallière); her sister Marie Anne Mancini, the Duchesse de Bouillon; François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, the Duc de Luxembourg; Françoise-Athénaïs, the Marquise de Montespan (another of the king's mistresses); and the Comtesse de Gramont ("La Belle Hamilton"); among many others.

La Voisin was eventually caught up in the Poison Affair (“L’affaire des poisons”), a murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV which launched a period of hysterical pursuit of murder suspects, during which a number of prominent people and members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced for poisoning and witchcraft.

The furor began in 1675 after the trial of Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, the Marquise de Brinvilliers, who was forced to confess to poisoning her father and siblings. She was sentenced to death and, after torture with the water cure (being forced to drink sixteen pints of water), was beheaded and burned at the stake. This case drew attention to a number of other mysterious deaths, and many fortune-tellers and alchemists suspected of selling not only divinations, séances and aphrodisiacs, but also "inheritance powders" (i.e. poison), were rounded up and tried.

La Voisin’s testimony implicated a number of important individuals in the French court, particularly the king's mistress, the Marquise de Montespan, who she claimed had bought aphrodisiacs and performed black masses with her in order to gain the king's favour. La Voisin was convicted of witchcraft and poisoning and was burned in public on the Place de Grève in the centre of Paris in 1680.

https://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/witches_medieval.html

[ocultopedia]

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[canaldelmisterio]

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[thefugitivesaint]

Antoine Coypel (1661-1722), Portrait of la Voisin' (Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin), n.d. “ Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as "La Voisin", was a French fortune teller, poisoner, and an alleged sorceress, one of the chief personages in the affaire des poisons, during the reign of Louis XIV. Her purported cult (Affair of the Poisons) was suspected to have killed anywhere between 1000-2500 people in Black Masses.” Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin