CHARLATAN is based on the Affair of the Poisons that scandalized Paris in 1679. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love of Louis XIV. Three years later, Athenais, Madame de Montespan, the King’s glamorous mistress,Continue reading “Charlatan by Kate Braithwaite”