The wanton Jesuit and the wayward saint : a tale of sex, religion, and politics in eighteenth-century France /

This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early mo...

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Main Author: Choudhury, Mita, 1964- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2016]
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE History Supplement.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE History Supplement.
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