Alexander Dumas' Urbain Grandier is an account of the 1634 trial of Urbain Grandier. and one volume of his Celebrated Crimes series. A a French Catholic priest, Urbain was was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the Loudun Possessions. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. His historical novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Corsican Brothers, and The Man in the Iron Mask.