Loudun

Loudun (Latin Iuliodunum ) is a town with 6904 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the French department of Vienne in the Poitou -Charentes. Until 1789 Loudun belonged to the historic province of Anjou.

The town 1633, when the local priest and several nuns became famous placed under Hexereiverdacht and the priest was executed after a sensational show trial. The material was taken, inter alia, by Aldous Huxley and processed The Devils of Loudun by Krzysztof Penderecki at the opera, and, in 1971 filmed by Ken Russell under the title The Devil.

Coat of arms

Description: In a red schwarzgefugter silver crenellated tower under a blue shield with three main beam pointing identified golden lilies.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), Neo-Latin poet
  • Scévole (I.) de Sainte -Marthe ( 1536-1623 ), poet
  • Scévole ( II ) de Sainte -Marthe ( 1571-1650 ), historian
  • Théophraste Renaudot (1586-1653), journalist and medical
  • Ismael Boulliau (1605-1694), Astronomer
  • René Monory (1923-2009), politician, several times Minister and President of the Senate

Connected to Loudun

  • Urbain Grandier (1590-1634), Catholic priest who was convicted of witchcraft and executed in Loudun at the stake

Twinning

  • Belgium Leuze, Belgium, since 1961
  • Burkina Faso Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, since 1967
  • United States Thibodaux, United States, since 1978
  • Canada Shippagan, Canada, since 1981
  • Spain Burgos, Spain, since 1985
  • France Audun -le- Tiche, France, since 2007

It is worth noting that Ouagadougou is significantly above a hundred times higher population than Loudun, and between Ouagadougou and Leuze (since 1977 Leuze -en- Hainaut, 13,205 inhabitants), there is also a town twinning.

Poitou-Charentes Arrondissement Cantons of France Postal codes in France Provinces of France The Devils (film) Chief (heraldry) Leuze-en-Hainaut Thibodaux (Louisiana) Audun-le-Tiche Loudun possessions
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