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Devils of Loudun (Penguin Classics)
Aldous Huxley
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| #5425543 in Books | 2001-10 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.10 x5.28l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A classic work, well deserving of its reputation|By Chad Helms|Well, first things first: if you're at all interested in the spiritual and intellectual life of 17th century France, then you need to read this book. Huxley does a masterful job- in my opinion- of evoking a France under the nominal reign of a weak and superstitious king (Louis XIII) but actually under the arbitrary||"Huxley has reconstructed with skill, learning and horror one of the most appalling incidents in the history of witch-hunting during its seventeenth-century heyday. The Devils of Loudun is fascinating, erudite, and instinct with intellectual vitality" Times Li
Urbain Grandier, parson of the French town of Loudun, was tortured and burned 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...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Devils of Loudun (Penguin Classics) | Aldous Huxley. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.