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The Devils of Loudun

The Devils of Loudun

By Aldous Huxley

Paperback | ISBN 9780099477761

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Huxley tells the strange true story of mass demonic possession and sexual hysteria which took place in the small town of Loudun in France, in the 1600s

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World

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.

Grandier maintained his innocence to the end but 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.

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099477761
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Number of pages: 400
Width (mm): 129
Height (mm): 198
Depth (mm): 24

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