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THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN.




                    [COLLECTANEA ADAMANTAEA.--XXI.]

                           THE HISTORY OF THE

                           Devils of Loudun,

    _The Alleged Possession of the Ursuline Nuns, and the Trial and
                     Execution of Urbain Grandier_,

                        TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNESS.


                  TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH,

                                  AND

                               Edited by
                       EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.,
                             F.S.A. (Scot.)


                                VOL. I.


                           PRIVATELY PRINTED.
                               EDINBURGH.

                                 1887.




_This Edition is limited to 275 small-paper and 75 large-paper copies._




                     [_Fac-simile of Title-Page._]

                         LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE

                                  DES

                           Diables de Loudun,

                   _De la possession des Religieuses
                               Ursulines_

                                  _et

                           de la Condamnation
                          D'URBAIN GRANDIER_,

                             PAR UN TEMOIN.

                             [Illustration]

                              A. POITIERS,
                  Chez J. Thoreau et la veuve Menier,
                      Imprimeurs ordinaires du Roi
                          et de l'Universitie.

                              M.DC.XXXIV.




