The Devils of Loudun
by Aldous Huxley
In 1634, Urbaine Grandier, a handsome and immoral priest of Laudoun Parish, was tried, tortured, and burned at the stake. In the most sensational state of mass appropriation and sexual hysteria in history, he was found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire monastery of nuns. Grandier retained his innocence to the end, and four years after his death, the nuns still underwent exorcisms to escape demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid narrative of this bizarre story of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
