The Devils of Loudun

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Urbain Grandier was burned at the stake at Loudun, France, on 18 April 1634. Did anyone really believe that he was the sorcerer responsible for the possession by devils of a whole convent of nuns who fell regularly into paroxysms of obscene and heretical frenzies? No matter. It was a blatant political frame-up from Cardinal Richelieu down. He was too insolent, too promiscuous, too dangerously alive. And yet, even after he was burned, the Devils of Loudun stayed on to taunt and fascinate victims and tourists alike. Huxley's gripping history of events in seventeenth-century has great contemporary relevance in a world which has not learned as much as it thinks about the persecution of freedom by fear, bigotry, envy and greed... The cover shows a scene from the film, The Devils