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Louis Figuier - Les mysteres de la science. Illustration for the possessed of Loudun. Affair of the possessions of Loudun (demons of Loudun) around 1630: witch hunt, the French priest Urbain Grandier (1590-1634) who would have made a pact with the devil and accused of having bewitched nuns, was tortured with boots. He was eventually convicted of the crimes of sorcery and burned at the stake.