Definition of Loudun. Meaning of Loudun. Synonyms of Loudun

- Loudun (/luːˈdʌn/; French pronunciation: [lu.dœ̃]; Poitevin: Loudin) is a commune in the Vienne department and the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, western...
- The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took...
- Die Teufel von Loudun (The Devils of Loudun) is an opera in three acts written in 1968 and 1969 by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and then revised...
- The Devils of Loudun is a 1952 non-fiction account expressed in a novelistic style by Aldous Huxley. It is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession...
- 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a ****ually repressed...
- after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called "Loudun possessions". Most modern commentators have concluded that Grandier was...
- The canton of Loudun is an administrative division of the Vienne department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
- Belcier (2 February 1602 – 29 January 1665), was a French Ursuline nun in Loudun, France. She became mother superior of the convent at a young age, but is...
- Queen Marie made peace with the ratification on 3 May of the Treaty of Loudun, which allowed Condé great power in government but did not remove Concini...
- dramatist John Whiting, based on Aldous Huxley's 1952 book, The Devils of Loudun. The Devils had its first performance at London's Aldwych Theatre in February...