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URBAN GRANDIER (1590–1634.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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URBAN GRANDIER (1590–1634.) , priest of the church of Sainte Croix at
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Loudun in the department of Vienne, France, was accused of
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witchcraft in 1632 by some hysterical novices of the Carmelite Convent, where the trial, protracted for two years, was held . Grandier was found guilty and burnt alive at Loudun on the 18th of August 1634 .

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