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GRANDIER, URBAN (1590–1634.)

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

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