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Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV 's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal.
Les camisards sont des protestants français de la région des Cévennes et de la Vaunage, dans le Sud de la France, qui ont mené une insurrection contre les persécutions qui ont suivi la révocation de l'Édit de Nantes en 1685.
Feb 3, 1972 · Les camisards: Directed by René Allio. With Rufus, Jacques Debary, Gérard Desarthe, Philippe Clévenot. King Louis XIV orders all Protestants to convert to Catholicism.
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- Drama, History, War
- René Allio
- 1972-02-03
En 1702, à la suite de la révocation de l' Édit de Nantes, les protestants cévenols, majoritairement des paysans et ouvriers de la soie, constituent des groupes armés à la suite de Gédéon Laporte et combattent les dragons de Louis XIV, chargés d'imposer le catholicisme à toute la population.
Musée protestant > The 18th century > The Camisards. For almost two years mere craftsmen and peasants managed to keep at bay the troops of Louis XIV at bay, one of the best armies in Europe, and resisted two French field marshals. This is what he king and foreign powers never managed to understand.
Sep 1, 2011 · A subgroup of Calvinist diehards known as the Camisards rebelled in the southern province of Languedoc, sparking the last French war of religion between 1702 and 1710.
Sep 10, 2012 · Set in the Cévennes region of France in the 18th century, Les Camisards is about a band of Huguenot rebels who turn their anger at the repressive tactics of a Catholic...
