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 The Devils of Loudun - Aldous Huxley
 The Devils of Loudun - Aldous Huxley ... at the stake in 1634. He was accused of being in league with the Devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns, in what is the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Charming, handsome, dandyish and promiscuous, as soon as Grandier arrived in Loudun it became clear that he took more than a pastoral interest in his female parishioners. His reputation for arousing extraordinary sexual passions in the townswomen spread to the Prioress of the local convent, Sister Jeanne, who became obsessed with the delicious monster.Newest Review: ... also makes plain that deceitful, hysterical, and downright silly as they may have been, the Nuns were not the most culpable ... more ... villains in this medieval drama. Urbain Grandier made his deadliest enemies long before he inspired improper thoughts in the local brides of Christ. The early chapters of the book acquaint the reader with the world of medieval France, and thence to the Parson and his ways. The morality of the age, it seems, was not what one would hope from simple, superstitious folk living in the fear of a wrathful God. Offering us background from a variety of sources, including the memoirs of a contemporary of the times, Jean-Jac...more |
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The Devils of Loudun - Aldous Huxley: Randy Priests, Naughty Nuns, and Downright Dirty Devils (1877 words)
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‘The Devils of Loudon’ is a long, wordy, scholastic history of a highly interesting event which took place in the French town of Loudon in the early sixteen thirties. The parson of the town, Urbain Grandier, a handsome, promiscuous rogue with an eye for the ladies and very bad instincts of self preservation, was accused and convicted of being in league with the devil, and as such tortured and then burned to death. The reason for his condemnation was his hysterical denunciation by a convent full of nuns, who claimed that, through the malefic influence of his demonic contacts he was inciting them to think lewd thoughts, shout filthy words, and indulge in ... Read the complete review
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