REWIND - LA VOISIN: WHO IS TO BLAME?
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the demise of La Voisin?
On this week's REWIND, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes a dear friend (and potential real life witch!) Jen Curran to discuss the Affair of the Poisons which ultimately led to the execution of the French “wise woman” La Voisin. Are witches real or were they the product of the religious mystique at the time? Could the Criminal Magical Underworld of Paris take the fall for this one? And why is No Social Services for Women up on the Alarmist Board? Producer Clayton Early and Fact Checker Chris Smith help crack the case. Join our Patreon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Alarmy, we're taking a quick break here at The Alarmist, but we'll be back soon. |
| 0:04.5 | In the meantime, enjoy this classic episode from our vault. |
| 0:09.3 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:12.2 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain. My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm |
| 0:28.2 | uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to |
| 0:36.4 | blame. |
| 0:38.3 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:41.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:42.6 | My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith, and I am The Alarmist. |
| 0:53.2 | Hey, everyone. Thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's |
| 0:58.4 | greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're discussing La Voison and the Affair |
| 1:04.7 | of the Poisons. Here's what you need to know. In 17th century France, King Louis XIV, |
| 1:13.1 | the 14 lived an unprecedented, extravagant lifestyle |
| 1:17.4 | as an absolute monarch, known as the Sun King |
| 1:21.1 | because he imagined himself to be the brilliant center of his kingdom. |
| 1:25.5 | His court at the Palace of Versailles |
| 1:27.4 | wind and dined at royal |
| 1:29.3 | balls. But underneath the glitz and glamour of his reign, several mysterious deaths of |
| 1:35.2 | nobility close to the king revealed a sinister plot born outside Versailles' gates. A criminal |
| 1:42.6 | underworld of sorceresses, alchemists, abortionists, |
| 1:48.0 | and renegade priests. Concerned that there was a plot to poison him, King Louis X14 ordered |
| 1:54.0 | an investigation into the widespread practice of poisoning that had developed in Paris. On March 12, |
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