Case file · Witch trials
The Louviers possessions
From 1642, Franciscan nuns at Louviers in Normandy convulsed and accused their late director Mathurin Picard and the priest Thomas Boullé; in 1647 Boullé was burned and Picard's body exhumed and burned.
1647 CE · 49.22, 1.17 · status: official
The account
Sister Madeleine Bavent, accused of attending sabbaths, died in prison. It was one of the last great convent possession cases in France.