ABSTRACT
The Loudun case fascinated the whole of western Europe. Tourists came to hear the nuns scream, the town grew rich, the Prioress' chemise, after she had been exorcised, was laid upon Anne of Austria when she was giving birth to the future Louis XIV. We are amazed. We are disgusted. Those people must have been mad! How could they have believed in devils? And then, remorselessly, Mr. Huxley relates them to ourselves.
