RELIGIOUS FIGURE

La Voisin

1640 - 1680

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. La Voisin is the 1,118th most popular religious figure (down from 950th in 2019), the 1,568th most popular biography from France (down from 1,426th in 2019) and the 77th most popular French Religious Figure.

La voisin is a French word that means “neighbor.” The term is often used to refer to the person who lives next door to someone, but it can also be used to refer to any person who lives in the vicinity of someone.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, La Voisin ranks 1,118 out of 3,187. Before her are Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Donatus Magnus, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, Beniamino Stella, and Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria. After her are Henry of Latvia, Ikkyū, Youssef Absi, Gianna Beretta Molla, José Saraiva Martins, and Antipope Gregory VI.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, La Voisin ranks 7. Before her are Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Man in the Iron Mask, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, and Pu Songling. After her are Gaspar Sanz, Aphra Behn, Antoine Coysevox, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Yohannes I, and Philippe de La Hire. Among people deceased in 1680, La Voisin ranks 17. Before her are Samuel Butler, Ferdinand Bol, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Emperor Go-Mizunoo, Thomas Bartholin, and Ivan Sirko. After her are John George II, Elector of Saxony, Tokugawa Ietsuna, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, John Eudes, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Per Brahe the Younger.

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In France

Among people born in France, La Voisin ranks 1,568 out of 6,770. Before her are Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (1645), Antoine Busnois (1430), Maria Francisca of Savoy (1646), Richardis (840), Alain Juppé (1945), and Chris Marker (1921). After her are Joseph Avenol (1879), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Guy de Chauliac (1300), and Lolo Ferrari (1963).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, La Voisin ranks 77. Before her are Medardus (470), Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517), Thibaud Gaudin (1229), Adalbert of Magdeburg (910), Eugène Tisserant (1884), and Jacques Paul Migne (1800). After her are Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), Louis of Toulouse (1274), Yves Congar (1904), Jeanne Guyon (1648), Hugh of Cluny (1024), and Eugène de Mazenod (1782).

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