Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
Subtitle: A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780271070810
Subjects: Jesuits; Trials, france; Clergy, sexual behavior
Description: "Investigates the scandalous 1731 trial in which a young woman in the south of France accused her Jesuit confessor of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Examines this trial in the context of growing public disenchantment with the church and the monarchy"--Provided by publisher.