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The Affair of the Poisons (French: L'affaire des poisons) was a large-scale criminal investigation and trial that emerged in late 1670s and early 1680s during the reign of King Louis XIV of France. It encompassed members of the aristocracy court officials and Paris’s underworld. The affair is characterized by the exposure of a complex network of crimes involving poison production and distribution witchcraft abortion and rituals known as “black masses.” This process is regarded as a pivotal histo