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The devils of Loudun
by Aldous Huxley, Matthew Lloyd Davies
- demoniac possession
- couvent des ursulines (loudun
- france)
- demonology
- convent des ursulines (loudun
- grandier
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In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
Quotes by Aldous Huxley
From WikiquoteI can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Stupidity or reason? Oh, there was no choice now. It was imbecility every time.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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