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Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun 1971 - Penguin


Title: The Devils of Loudun
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 1971
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in a good condition for its age. The spine and covers are creased, the pages are yellowing.

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Reader's note

Urbain Grandier was burned at the stake at Loudun, France, on 18th April 1634. Did anyone really believe he was the sorcerer responsible for the possession by devils of a whole convent of nuns who fell regularly into paroxysms of obscene and heretical frenzies? No matter. It was a blatent political frame-up from Cardinal Richlieu down. He was too insolent, too promiscuous, too dangerously alive. And yet, even after he was tortured and burned, the Devils of Loudun stayed on to taunt and fascinate victims and tourists alike. Huxley's gripping history of events in seventeenth-century France has great contemporary relevance in a world which has not learned as much as it thinks about the persecution of freedom by fear, bigotry, envy and greed...