Category History of Auvergne da Kamisarder de Kamisarden es Camisard eu Camisard fr Camisard it Rivolta dei Camisard no Camisarder oc Camisard pl Powstanie kamizard w pt Camisard ru ... more details
orphan date December 2008 Abdias Maurel before 1702 April 22, 1705 , Camisard leader, became a cavalry officer in the French army and gained distinction in Italy here he served under Nicolas Catinat Marshal Catinat , and on this account he himself is sometimes known as Catinat. In 1702, when the revolt in the Cevennes broke out, he became one of the Camisard leaders, and in this capacity his name was soon known and feared. He refused to accept the peace made by Jean Cavalier in 1704, and after passing a few weeks in Switzerland he returned to France and became one of the chiefs of those Camisards who were still in arms. He was deeply concerned in a plot to capture some French towns, a scheme which, it was hoped, would be helped by England and Holland . But it failed Maurel was betrayed, and with three other leaders of the movement was burned to death at N mes on the 22nd of April 1705. He was a man of great physical strength but he was very cruel, and boasted he had killed 200 Roman Catholics with his own hands. References 1911 Persondata NAME Abdias Maurel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION French army cavalry officer DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1705 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Abdias Maurel Category 1705 deaths Category Year of birth uncertain es Abdias Maurel fr Abdias Maurel pt Abdias Maurel ... more details
Multiple issues wikify March 2012 orphan February 2009 context October 2009 Illumin s of France is a movement under the name of Illumin s which seems to have reached France from Seville in 1623, and attained some following in Picardy when joined 1634 by Pierce Guerin, cur of Saint Georges de Roye, whose followers, known as Gurinets, were suppressed in 1635. A century later, another, more obscure body of Illumin s came to light in the south of France in 1722, possibly associated with the Alumbrados , and appears to have lingered until 1794, having affinities with those known contemporaneously in the United Kingdom as French Prophets , an offshoot of the Camisard s. References Unreferenced date January 2007 DEFAULTSORT Illumines Category 17th century in France fr Illumin s pt Illumin s ... more details
identity, being at the heart of Camisard revolt, which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ... testimonies of Camisard war in the C vennes abund in towns and villages of the C vennes National Park. A project of a permanent exhibition devoted to the memory of Camisard s has been elaborated ... The temple of Rouve Bas today disused, it is at the heart of a project devoted to the memory of Camisard ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 one source date February 2012 no footnotes date February 2012 Roland Laporte 1675 14 August 1704 , Camisards Camisard leader, better known as Roland, was born at Mas Soubeyran Gard in a cottage which has become the property of the Socit de l Histoire du Protestantisme fran ais, and which contains relics of the hero. He was a nephew of Laporte, the Camisard leader who was hunted down and shot in October 1702, and he himself became the leader of a band of a thousand men which he formed into a disciplined army with magazines, arsenals and hospitals. For daring in action and rapidity of movement he was second only to Cavalier. These two leaders in 1702 secured entrance to the town of Sauve under the pretence of being royal officers, burnt the church and carried off provisions and ammunition for their forces. Roland, who called himself general of the children of God, terrorized the country between N mes and Alais , burning churches and houses, and slaying those suspected of hostility against the Huguenots , though without personally taking any part of the spoil. Jean Cavalier Cavalier was already in negotiation with Claude Louis Hector de Villars Marshal Villars when Roland cut to pieces a Catholic regiment at Fontmorte in May 1704. He refused to lay down his arms without definite assurance of the restoration of the privileges accorded by the Edict of Nantes . Villars then sought to negotiate, offering Roland the command of a regiment on foreign service and liberty of conscience, though not the free exercise of their religion, for his co religionists. This parley had no results, but Roland was betrayed to his enemies, and on 14 August 1704 was shot while defending himself against his captors. The five officers who were with him surrendered, and were broken on the wheel at N mes. Roland s death put an end to the effective resistance of the C venois. References 1911 See A Court, Histoire des troubles des C vennes Villefranche, 1760 HM Baird, ... more details
time he authorized the formation of a Camisard regiment for service in Spain under his command ... by the mere gift of nature a great general, this Camisard who was bold to punish a crime in the presence ... . Eug ne Sue popularized the name of the Camisard chief in Jean Cavalier ou les fanatiques des C vennes ... more details
Fran ois de Langlade du Chayla c. 1647 24 July 1702 was the French Catholic Abb of Chaila or Chayla , Archpriest of the Cevennes and Inspector of Missions of the Cevennes . His brutal repression of French Protestant Huguenot s by means of torture caused his assassination and sparked the Camisard War of the Camisards . A missionary in his youth in Siam modern Thailand , he there suffered near martyrdom at the hands of Buddhists, was left for dead, but survived and returned to France. His house in Le Pont de Montvert served as a prison for Protestants who were tortured. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, Chayla ..closed the hands of his prisoners upon live coal, and plucked out the hairs of their beards, to convince them that they were deceived in their religious beliefs . References http www.gutenberg.org etext 2743 Massacres of the South 1551 1815 , by Alexandre Dumas, p re chapter II has an excellent account of the life and martyrdom of abbe de Chayla. http translate.google.com translate?u http 3A 2F 2Fwww.camisards.net 2FTT240 abbe du chaila fr.htm&langpair fr 7Cen&hl en&ie UTF8 The murder of the abbot of Chaila , English translation. http www.camisards.net TT240 abbe du chaila fr.htm Original page in French . Travels with a Donkey in the C vennes , by Robert Louis Stevenson. See chapter s The Annotated Travels with a Donkey in the C vennes Pont De Montvert Pont De Montvert for a brief account. Christianity in Thailand Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Langlade, Francois ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1702 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Langlade, Francois Category 1640s births Category 1702 deaths Category French Roman Catholic priests Category Roman Catholic missionaries Category French Christian missionaries Category Christian missionaries in Thailand Category 17th century Roman Catholic priests Category 18th century Roman Catholic priests Category Assassinated French people Category Assassinated religi ... more details
Image Croix huguenote.gif thumb right The Huguenot cross Le Mus e du D sert is a museum dedicated to the history of Protestantism in France, particularly in the C vennes . Its name refers to the D sert , the period between the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Edict of Toleration 1685 1787 during which Protestantism was illegal in France. The museum, formerly the house of the Camisard leader, Roland Laporte , is situated at Mas Soubeyran , in the commune of Mialet, Gard Mialet , d partement Gard , not far from Al s and N mes . Amid typically C venol settings, it presents documents and artifacts of the period, such as the preaching chair s used by the pastors, designed to be easily hidden and transported. It is open from March 1 to November 30. Assembl e du D sert Every year, on the first Sunday of September, between 15 000 and 20 000 Protestants come to the museum from all over France, and from Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Denmark, Ireland, the US, and South Africa, for the Assembl e du D sert , first held on 24 September 1911. After morning communion, the afternoon is filled with panel discussions on various subjects, depending on the year, and frequently commemorating some event or person. On 6 September 2009, the theme was the 500th birthday of Jean Calvin on 5 September 2010, the theme was the 250th anniversary of the death of Antoine Court . http www.museedudesert.com article7.html The day traditionally closes with the hymn La C venole 1885 . External links http www.museedudesert.com Official site coord missing France Category Museums in Gard Category Christianity in France Category Huguenot history Category Religious museums in France als Mus e du D sert fr Mus e du D sert oc Mus u dau Des rt ... more details
Refimprove date October 2006 File Louis Rossel.jpg thumb right Louis Rossel Louis Nathaniel Rossel was a French army officer and politician. On 19 March 1871 he became the only senior French officer to join up with the Paris Commune , and here he played an important r le as Minister of War. He was born in 1844 in Saint Brieuc , C tes d Armor , but his father was a scion of a strongly republican Huguenot Huguenot Protestant N mes family, and descended from Saint Jean du Gard Camisard s. His mother, born Sarah Campbell, was from Scotland . Rossel was educated at the Prytan e Militaire , and was executed in 1871 at the Satory military centre at Versailles . When Rossel became Minister of War, replacin Louis Cluseret after the abandonment of Fort Issy, he immediately ordered the construction of a new ring of barricades within the existing ramparts in case the Government forces penetrated the first line of defense. Rossel also tried to concentrate and centralize the 1,100 artillery pieces scattered throughout the city. Many were out of commission with their breechblocks stored in arsenals elsewhere in Paris , so that the only readily available guns were light pieces that fared poorly against the Government s heavy artillery. Furthermore, Rossel began work within the city on three citadels at the Trocadero, on Montmartre , and at the Pantheon on the Left Bank. Here, the Communards would be able to make a final stand if necessary. He put the defense of the city ramparts under the direct tactical command of a pair of his most talented Polish emigres, youthful veterans of the 1863 Polish rebellion. These were men accustomed to desperate fighting against hopeless odds. Recognizing that a purely passive defense would enable the Government forces to mass at any given point, Rossel developed a plan to organize National Guard battalions into combat groups, each of five battalions, commanded by a colonel, and supported by some 40 guns. Unfortunately, the National Guard units remai ... more details
Infobox French commune name Fraissinet de Loz re region Languedoc Roussillon department Loz re arrondissement Florac canton Le Pont de Montvert INSEE 48066 postal code 48220 mayor Jean Pierre Allier ref http www.lozerefrance.com page p 111 art id Site du conseil g n ral de la Loz re ref term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality C vennes au Mont Loz re longitude 3.7014 latitude 44.3753 elevation m 1060 elevation min m 669 elevation max m 1699 area km2 38.58 population 190 population date 1999 Fraissinet de Loz re is a Communes of France commune in the Loz re Departments of France department in southern France . History Fraissinet de Loz re was one of the earliest communities of Huguenot s in France. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 by the Edict of Fontainebleau , several people from Fraissinet de Loz re fled to England or Holland. They kept in touch with their family, though, even during the Nine Years War 1688 1697 . They managed to maintain networks, so that people, money and information would come and go from C vennes to Holland . An account of the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue 1692 elaborated by Dutch propaganda, very critical against Louis XIV , was thus sent and kept by the main characters of the Rouvi re family, one of the most powerful groups of the village. This could mean that newly converted dit not plainly support their king ref St phane Haffemayer et Ghislain Baury, La bataille de La Hougue, de la Hollande aux C vennes 1692 , Des gal res m diterran ennes aux rivages normands. Recueil d tudes en hommage Andr Zysberg , Cahier des Annales de Normandie, 36 Caen, CRHQ, 2011, p. 507 525. ref . During the War of the Camisard s, it was very close to the birthplace of the revolt, the village of Le Pont de Montvert . Nevertheless, the village remained loyal to the king, though it received no special treatment, and was burned down by the troops as other Protestant villages of the C vennes in 1703. ref Ghislain Baury, La dynastie Rouvi re de Fr ... more details
Infobox French commune name Mialet region Languedoc Roussillon department Gard arrondissement Al s canton Saint Jean du Gard INSEE 30168 postal code 30140 mayor Gilbert Rouanet term 2001&ndash 2008 intercommunality Grand Al s longitude 3.9436 latitude 44.1117 elevation m 165 elevation min m 140 elevation max m 691 area km2 30.76 population 563 population date 2008 Mialet is a Communes of France commune in the Gard Departments of France department in southern France . It lies close to Al s and Saint Jean du Gard . The commune includes the hamlet of Mas Soubeyran , centre of the Protestant resistance during the 16th century. Population D mographie 1793 1566 1821 1437 1846 1421 1872 1171 1901 935 1926 633 1946 489 1962 427 1968 371 1975 354 Demography noheader yes 1982 449 1990 511 1999 539 2008 563 Sights Bridge, the Pont des camisards Mas Soubeyran, known for its annual Protestant gatherings Personalities Rolland, or Rolland Laporte, from his real name Pierre Laporte, born 3 January 1680, died 14 April 1704, was a Camisard chief in the C vennes , nicknamed le G n ral des enfants de Dieu general of the children of God . His birth house is now the Mus e du D sert. See also Communes of the Gard department References http www.insee.fr en home home page.asp INSEE reflist External links http www.museedudesert.com article5759.html Le Mus e du D sert website en Gard communes Category Communes of Gard Gard geo stub als Mialet ca Mialet Gard ceb Mialet, Gard de Mialet Gard es Mialet Gard eu Mialet Gard fr Mialet Gard it Mialet Gard la Mialet Vardo mg Mialet, Gard ms Mialet, Gard nl Mialet Gard oc Mialet Gard pms Mialet Gard pl Mialet Gard pt Mialet Gard sk Mialet Gard sv Mialet, Gard bug Mialet, Gard uk vi Mialet, Gard vo Mialet Gard war Mialet, Gard ... more details
Infobox French commune name Saint Andr de Lancize region Languedoc Roussillon department Loz re arrondissement Florac canton Saint Germain de Calberte INSEE 48136 postal code 48240 mayor Violaine Martin term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality Vall e Longue et du Calbertois en C vennes longitude 3.8111 latitude 44.2589 elevation m 700 elevation min m 376 elevation max m 1351 area km2 22.78 population 112 population date 1999 image Temple du Rouve.jpeg caption The temple of Rouve Bas today disused, it is at the heart of a project devoted to the memory of Camisard war in Boug s mountains C vennes http templedurouve.com in French Saint Andr de Lancize is a Communes of France commune in the Loz re Departments of France department in southern France . History History of the commune is mainly marked by the Camisards revolt, which started on July 22, 1702, in Vieljouves, a hamlet located above the village of Le Rouve. ref Pierre Jean Ruff, 2008. Le Temple du Rouve lieu de m moire des Camisards. Editions Lacour Oll , N mes in French . ref ref Henry Mouysset, 2010. Les premiers Camisards juillet 1702. Nouvelles Presses du Languedoc, S te in French . ref On the same evening, upon invitation by Salomon and David Couderc, two brothers living in Le Rouve, a group gathered around the woolcomber Abraham Mazel, a prophet , who received a divine inspiration ref Abraham Mazel, lie Marion, Jacques Bonbonnoux, 1983. M moires sur la guerre des Camisards. Les Presses du Languedoc, Montpellier in French . ref giving him the instruction to deliver huguenots made prisoners and tortured by Fran ois Langlade , the abb of Chayla at Pont de Montvert . The following Sunday was devoted to mobilize people who were volunteers to release prisoners. On July 24, fifty men, armed with some guns, axes and scythes, gathered on top of Boug s mountain, at a site named Les treis Faus or Les trois fayards meaning Three beeches in Occitan and French language , respectively . On the same evening, around 10 AM ... more details
Psalmody Abbey , also Psalmodie Abbey or Psalmodi Abbey lang fr Abbaye de Psalmody, Psalmodi or Psalmodie , was a Rule of St Benedict Benedictine abbey located near Saint Laurent d Aigouze in the Camargue , in the department of Gard and the region of Languedoc Roussillon in the south of France . History Psalmody Abbey was founded in the 5th century by monks from the Abbey of St. Victor, Marseille . The new monastery acquired considerable importance and became directly accountable to Rome. Its influence grew throughout the region, mostly because of its trade in salt. It reached its peak in the 12th century, and its decline set in from the 15th. It was secularised in the 16th century by a Papal bull bull of Pope Paul III and the buildings were largely destroyed during the war of the Camisard s by Abdias Maurel Catinat , although its revenues continued to be drawn by commendatory abbot s until the French Revolution . Only a few scattered ruins survive. ref http www.encyclopedie universelle.com abbaye origines occident1.html Encyclop die universelle.com photograph of the ruins of Psalmody Abbey ref The site was declared a monument historique in 1984. List of abbots 762 815 Corbilien 815 840 Th odemir 840 886 Thibaud 886 909 Witard I 909 9?? Raimbaud 9?? 997 Bermond 997 1004 Witard II 1004 1054 Warnier 1054 1071 Raymond I 1071 1076 Guillaume I Philaud 1076 1082 B renger 1082 1084 Arnaud I 1084 1085 Pierre I 1085 1086 Guillaume II 1086 1097 Arnaud II 1097 1115 Foulques I 1115 1117 Pierre II 1117 1141 Bertrand 1141 1155 Pierre III 1155 1174 Guillaume III 1174 1180 Pierre IV d Uz s 1180 1185 Guillaume IV 1185 1190 Foulques II 1190 1198 Guillaume V 1198 1203 Aldebert 1203 1203 Raymond II 1203 1220 Bernard I de G nerac 1220 1226 Raymond III 1226 1243 Pons 1243 1248 Guillaume VI 1248 1249 Raymond IV 1249 1257 Guillaume VII Catel 1257 1272 G raud de Brugui res 1272 1275 Bernard II de Nages 1275 1316 Pierre V 1316 1317 Pierre VI Bedos 1317 1319 Raymond V Bernard 1319 1320 Arnaud ... more details
Infobox French commune name Le Pont de Montvert image coat of arms Blason ville fr Le Pont de Montvert.svg image France Lozere Le Pont de Montvert 01.jpg caption View of Le Pont de Montvert region Languedoc Roussillon department Loz re arrondissement Florac canton Le Pont de Montvert INSEE 48116 postal code 48220 mayor Sophie Pantel term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality C vennes au Mont Loz re longitude 3.7444 latitude 44.3642 elevation m 875 elevation min m 665 elevation max m 1,699 area km2 90.25 population 272 population date 1999 Le Pont de Montvert is a Communes of France commune in the Loz re Departments of France d partement in southern France . It is located in the heart of the C vennes National Park Parc National des C vennes . The inhabitants of Le Pont de Montvert are called Pontoises or Montvertipontains . History Neolithic Late Neolithic standing stones called the menhir s of the Cham des Bondons, the largest concentration of menhirs in the south of France, bear mute witness to the long prehistory of human occupation here. The village was a fief of the Knights Hospitaller . Guillaume de Grimoard, future pope under the name of Pope Urban V Urban V , was born in the Ch teau de Grizac here in 1309. The picturesquely sited structure, no larger than a farm, reveals its defensive nature by its narrow windows, perched high in its granite walls, and its four square tower, now topless. Charles V of France Charles V exempted the seigneurie de Grizac from all taxes, a privilege its lords maintained until the Revolution. In the 17th century it remained a local center of ardent French Protestantism Protestants Huguenot s in a traditionally highly independent region an incident in the village, the assassination on 24 July 1702 of the repressive abb de Chayla, sparked the rebellion of the Camisard s. The Huguenot s elites of the neighbouring village of Fraissinet de Loz re chose nevertheless to fight against the rebels. ref See the forthcoming publication Ghislain Ba ... more details
Image Travels map.jpg right thumb 200px Map of route Travels with a Donkey in the C vennes 1879 in literature 1879 is one of Robert Louis Stevenson s earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature . Background Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. Travels was both meant to raise money he needed to be with the woman he loved, and provide the adventure he craved, having been sickly much of his life. Travels recounts Stevenson s 12 day, 120 mile solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the C vennes mountains in south central France in 1878. The character of Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of, is memorable. It is one of the earliest accounts which presented hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bag s, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. The C vennes was the site of a Protestantism Protestant rebellion around 1702, severely suppressed by Roman Catholic Church Catholic Louis XIV of France Louis XIV . The Protestant insurgents, a minority population in the region, were known as the Camisard s. Stevenson was well versed in the history, romantically imagining scenes from the rebellion along the way. He notes that the Catholics and the Protestants, at the time of his travels, lived peaceably but with an absolute divide between the two communities. A young Catholic man who married a Protestant girl and changed his faith in the process was unanimously condemned for this breach of loyalty, an example of the sentiment change is not good which pervaded the countryside. Stevenson himself was Protestant by upbringing, and both the geography of the C vennes with its barren rocky heather filled hillsides, and the history of religious strife that lay over the land, were familiar ground for the Scot. The book appeared the following year, ... more details
The Vaunage is an area of southern France made up of the plain and the small hills around Nages et Solorgues Nages . It is known for its oppidum . The Vaunage area is located between Languedoc and Provence and between Sommi res and N mes . It is north of the Camargue . From east to west the villages of Vaunage are Caveirac , Clarensac , Langlade, Gard Langlade , Saint Dionizy , Nages et Solorgues , Calvisson , Boissi res, Gard Boissi res , Saint C me et Maru jols , Cong nies . Demography According to the 1999 census, The population of the Vaunage was 15,250, the area being 9981 ha. Boissi res, Gard Boissi res 485 area 333 ha Calvisson 4725 area 2897 ha Caveirac 3860 area 1479 ha Clarensac 3117 area 1449 ha Cong nies 1672 area 864 ha Langlade, Gard Langlade 2850 area 900 ha Nages et Solorgues 1150 area 18 ha Saint C me et Maru jols 580 area 1400 ha Saint Dionizy 1050 area 641 ha History The name is a contraction of Vall e de Nages , the valley of Nages. La vall e de Nages est une combe creus e dans le plateau des garrigues finissant, o coule le Rh ny. Cette d pression, encadr e de collines culminant 200 m tres est quasiment ferm e et ne communique facilement avec l ext rieur que par deux passages, l un l est, vers N mes , l autre, au sud, vers Verg ze . The valley is a furrowed combe at the edge of the garrigue s plateau, surrounded by 200m high hills that isolate it from the surroundings. There are two natural entrances, one to east coming from N mes , and one to the south towards Verg ze . This geographical situation has led to a strong regional identity. Le Camisard chief, Jean Cavalier called it petite Chanaan , little Canaan. qualificatif repris par Andr Chamson dans la Superbe . This is an agricultural region, rich in history. There are hundreds of archaeological sites in this small area. These valleys have been populated for over 2,000 years. Six oppida , dominated by that at Nages, were home to the Volques , who built them in the 8th century BC and rema ... more details
Cevennes , Sainte Cecile remained Catholic. During the Camisard Guerre des Camisards 1702 1705 , it was the scene ... Julien des Points were set alight by Rolland et Jouanny 800 to 900 Camisard attacted the papist village ... more details
Expand French Aigues Mortes topic geo date December 2009 Infobox French commune name Aigues Mortes image Aigues Mortes Walls 01.jpg caption City walls region Languedoc Roussillon department Gard arrondissement N mes canton Aigues Mortes INSEE 30003 postal code 30220 mayor C dric Bonato term 2008&ndash 2014 intercommunality longitude 4.1933 latitude 43.5675 elevation m 1 elevation min m 0 elevation max m 3 area km2 57.78 population 7891 population date 2008 Aigues Mortes lang oc Aigas M rtas, i.e. dead waters is a Communes of France commune in the Gard Departments of France department in southern France . The medieval city wall s surrounding the city are well preserved. History The foundation of the city is attributed to Gaius Marius , around 102 Anno Domini BC , but the first document mentioning a place called Ayga Mortas dead waters dates from the 10th century AD. Louis IX of France Saint Louis rebuilt the port in the 13th century as France s only Mediterranean port at that time. It was the embarkation point of the Seventh Crusade 1248 and the Eighth Crusade 1270 . The 1,650 meters of city walls were built in two phases the first during the reign of Philippe III the Bold and the second during the reign of Philippe IV the Fair, who had the enclosure completed between 1289 and 1300. The Constance Tower, completed in 1248, is all that remains of the castle built in Louis IX s reign. It was designed to be impregnable with six meter thick walls. A spiral staircase leads to the different levels of the tower. From 1575 to 1622, Aigues Mortes was one of the eight safe havens granted to the Protestants . The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 caused severe repression of Protestantism, which was marked in Languedoc and the C vennes in the early 18th century by the Camisard War . Like other towers in the town, from 1686 onwards, the Constance Tower was used as a prison for the Huguenots who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism . In 1703, Abraham Mazel, leader of the ... more details
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