Anne Somerset

The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (2004)

Anne Somerset’s work often concerns historic royal scandals. Her book The Affair of the Poisons is a reexamination of the poisoning and occult scandal which rocked Paris in the late seventeenth century. The scandal made its way right up to the court of Versailles, eventually even implicating some...