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A 3 page research paper that discusses the events of 1634 in the city of Loudun in France, where Father Urbain Grandier was persecuted and executed for political purposes as a victim of the Inquisition. The writer discusses the play and film based on this story, which draw on an historical account of the period by Aldous Huxley. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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execution of Father Urbain Grandier has inspired numerous artists, including British playwright John Whiting in The Devils and also Aldous Huxleys 1952 text The Devils of Loudun. In 1971, Ken
Russell drew upon both Whitings play and Huxleys book to create a film adaptation of the story. All three works address the same startling story. Loudun was a walled
Protestant stronghold in what was otherwise Catholic seventeenth century France (Scheib, 2001). Cardinal Richelieu was the advisor to the decadent King Louis XIII and Richelieu persuaded the king to tear
down the walls of the Protestant town, which would leave it open and vulnerable. The towns leading citizen was Father Urbain Grandier, a priest who had already impregnated one woman
and then secretly married another. Sister Jeanne, the mother superior of a local convent, lusted after Father Grandier (Scheib, 2001). When he declined to become the convents patron and Sister
Jeanne learned of his marriage, she became hysterical and began concocting tales about Grandier (Scheib, 2001). She told tales of orgies involving Grandier and her nuns (Scheib, 2001). Richelieu took
advantage of this and employed a witch-hunter to "investigate," which meant extracting a confession under torture. Once the talons of the Inquisition were invoked and set into their victim, the
"guilt" of the victim was a foregone conclusion. Rather like the infallibility of the Pope, the Church was not considered incapable of ever accusing an innocent person since surely God
would not allow such an injustice. The movie employs dialogue from Whitings play, as well as detail from Huxleys historical account (Kermode, 2002). From the onset, director Ken Russell
saw the narrative in terms of "brainwashing" (Kermode, 2002). The film pictures the events in Loudun has having nothing to do with demonism and the supernatural, but rather to concern
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