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- The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took...
- Loudun (/luːˈdʌn/; French pronunciation: [lu.dœ̃]; Poitevin: Loudin) is a commune in the Vienne department and the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, western...
- 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...
- 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 canton of Loudun is an administrative division of the Vienne department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation...
- 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...
- (1939) Time Must Have a Stop (1944) Ape and Essence (1948) The Devils of Loudun (1952) The Genius and the Goddess (1955) Island (1962) Collections: Limbo...
- 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...
- and exorcist. He is remembered for his parti****tion in the exorcisms of Loudun in 1634-37. Surin was born on April 12, 1600 in Bordeaux, his father Jean...