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Why Louis XIV's court turned to arsenic

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In the 1670s, King Louis XIV's glittering court was suddenly gripped by a massive, underground murder ring. Hundreds of elite French nobles were caught sneaking out to dark-alley fortune-tellers to purchase arsenic inheritance powders and partake in black masses, treating lethal assassination plots like a standard aristocratic networking event.

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