Loudun
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Vienne | |
| Arrondissement | Châtellerault | |
| Canton | Loudun (main town) | |
| Community association | Pays Loudunais | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 1 ' N , 0 ° 5' E | |
| height | 47-120 m | |
| surface | 43.77 km 2 | |
| Residents | 6,747 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 154 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 86200 | |
| INSEE code | 86137 | |
| Website | www.ville-loudun.fr | |
 Landmark of the city: Tour Carrée |
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Loudun ( lat. Iuliodunum ) is a town of 6,747 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the French department of Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine .
Until 1789 Loudun was part of the historic Anjou Province .
The city became famous in 1633 when the local priest Urbain Grandier and several nuns were suspected of witchcraft and the priest was executed in 1634 after a sensational show trial of the " Devils of Loudun ". The fabric was u. a. taken up by Aldous Huxley and processed by Krzysztof Penderecki in the opera Die Teufel von Loudun , as well as filmed by Ken Russell in 1971 under the title Die Teufel .
politics
coat of arms
Description : In red a black-grooved silver pinnacle tower under a blue shield head with three golden lilies arranged in bars .
The Briande dolmens are located at Arçay, south of Loudun.
Town twinning
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Leuze , Belgium , since 1961 -
Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso , since 1967 -
Thibodaux , USA , since 1978 -
Shippagan , Canada , since 1981 -
Burgos , Spain , since 1985 -
Audun-le-Tiche , France , since 2007
It is noteworthy that Ouagadougou has a population well over a hundred times as much as Loudun, and there is also a twinning between Ouagadougou and Leuze (since 1977 Leuze-en-Hainaut , 13.205 inhabitants).
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), historiographer
- Theophraste Renaudot (1586–1653), journalist and physician
- Ismael Boulliau (1605-1694), astronomer
- Jean Ernoul (1829–1899), politician
- René Monory (1923–2009), politician, several times Minister and President of the Senate
Associated with Loudun
- Urbain Grandier (1590–1634), Catholic priest convicted of witchcraft and executed at the stake in Loudun
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vienne. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-128-7 , pp. 419-440.
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