Catherine Deshayes, nicknamed Lavoisin, ' witch
' accused to have supplied poison,
portrait and differents
episodes of her life, engraving.
(Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
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The laboratory of La Voisin, (Catherine Deshayes), Parisian
adventuress, black magician
and fortune teller who was eventually
burnt for her wickedness Date: ? - 1680
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Catherine Deshayes, nicknamed La Voisin.
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Catherine Deshayes, nicknamed La Voisin.
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Antoine Coypel - Catherine Monvoisin with the Three Fates on the right
and Death on the left (pencil on paper)
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Catherine
Deshayes, nicknamed La Voisin.
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Catherine Deshayes execution.