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The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint - A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint - A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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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 modern France, the Cadière affair
was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when
magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical power.
Mita Choudhury’s examination of the trial sheds light on two
important phenomena with broad historical implications: the
questioning of traditional authority and the growing disquiet about
the role of the sacred and divine in French society. Both
contributed to the French people’s ever-increasing disenchantment
with the church and the king. Choudhury builds her story through an
extensive examination of archival material, including trial
records, pamphlets, periodicals, and unpublished correspondence
from witnesses. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint offers new
insights into how the eighteenth-century public interpreted the
accusations and why the case consumed the public for years,
developing from a local sex scandal to a referendum on religious
authority and its place in French society and politics.
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