# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-deshayes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:25:09.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-deshayes"
name: "Catherine Deshayes"
slug: "catherine-deshayes"
description: "Catherine Monvoisin, or Montvoisin, née Deshayes, known as \"La Voisin\", was a French fortune teller, commissioned poisoner, accused of witchcraft. She was the head of a network of fortune tellers in Paris providing poison, aphrodisiacs, and abortions 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."
tagline: "Alleged sorceress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catherine_Deshayes_(Monvoisin%2C_dite_%C2%ABLa_Voisin%C2%BB)_1680.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1640"
deathDate: "1680-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.86
  momentum:             9.591011724071354
  historical:           15.19617466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "كاثرين ديشايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deshayes"
    title: "Catherine Deshayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Monvoisin"
    title: "Catherine Monvoisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B1_%CE%92%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B1%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%BD"
    title: "Λα Βουαζέν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_La_Voisin"
    title: "Catherine La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ラ・ヴォワザン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deshayes"
    title: "Catherine Deshayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Монвуазен, Катрин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Monvoisin"
    title: "Catherine Monvoisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Deshayes"
    title: "Catherine Deshayes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Voisin"
    title: "La Voisin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%87%AF%E7%91%9F%E7%90%B3%C2%B7%E8%92%99%E7%93%A6%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "凯瑟琳·蒙瓦森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump