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Camisard Uprising - War and Religion in the CeVennes (Paperback)
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Camisard Uprising - War and Religion in the CeVennes (Paperback)
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Protestant numbers in France fell from ten per cent of the
population in 1598, when Henri IV gave protection by the Edict of
Nantes, to a persecuted two per cent in 1700 following its
revocation in 1685 by Louis XIV. The destruction of Protestantism
in France succeeded best in the cities where Huguenots were
vulnerable and could only remain faithful to their beliefs in
secret; but in the mountains of the Cevennes in Languedoc there
were hidden sites for unlawful religious assemblies, isolated
villages and farms, and a people of Celtic origin passionately
devoted to their form of Christianity with leanings to mysticism
and trance-induced biblical prophecy. The persecution-torture,
execution, confiscation of children, imposition of ruinous fines -
and the violent hostility of the Catholic clergy combined to create
conditions of terror and misery in the Cevennes that would one day
end in explosion. When it came, the court and civil servants with
unlimited power but mediocre intelligence were taken by surprise.No
one conceived that the Camisards, bands of shepherds, farm
labourers and wool combers chanting psalms as they went ill-armed
into battle and led by daring men without education or status,
could successfully ambush and sometimes destroy well-armed troops
of the crown - but they did so. David Crackanthorpe reveals how the
uprising raged from 1702 to 1704 with atrocities on both sides, a
huge increase in military numbers, and the burning of hundreds of
villages in the Cevennes. Inevitably, Camisard force was finally
broken and by a rare act of intelligence an amnesty allowed
survivors to leave the country. French Protestantism and the
Camisard memory survived in the traditions of a world-wide Huguenot
diaspora, while at the Revolution, which finally brought religious
toleration, many French families that had nominally abjured their
faith safely returned to it and have continued to play an important
part in French life and history.
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