The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint: A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

by Mita Choudhury

This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadi re, 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 Cadi re affair was central to the volatile politics of 1730s France, a time when magistrates and lawyers were seeking to contain clerical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271070811
• ISBN13: 9780271070810
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"