…thing up. I mean, the behaviour of the exorcists, this degree of revoltingness and bad faith, which is absolutely appalling. After Grandier had been burned, they sent for the Jesuits to go, because the nuns remained just as much possessed and hysterical as…

…is that the whole Loudun affair is interesting only if you take the two sides together if you take the the case of Grandier, and then the case of Surin. Between them, the two episodes describe the religious life on every level, from the most horrible to…

…I was the first person to bring these two episodes together in a single volume. Plenty of French people have written about Grandier, and in recent times plenty of people have written about Surin, but nobody has thought fit to put the two cases together…