THE HUGUENOTS IN FRANCE

By Dr. SAMUEL SMILES

Author of "Self Help"

LONDON
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CONTENTS.

THE HUGUENOTS IN FRANCE AFTER THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES.

• CHAPTER PAGE

• REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES 1
• EFFECTS OF THE REVOCATION—CHURCH IN THE DESERT 12
• CLAUDE BROUSSON, THE HUGUENOT ADVOCATE 30
• CLAUDE BROUSSON, PASTOR AND MARTYR 50
• OUTBREAK IN LANGUEDOC 75
• INSURRECTION OF THE CAMISARDS 99
• EXPLOITS OF CAVALIER 130
• END OF THE CAMISARD INSURRECTION 166
• GALLEY-SLAVES FOR THE FAITH 190
• ANTOINE COURT 205
• REORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH IN THE DESERT 218
• THE CHURCH IN THE DESERT—PAUL RABAUT 235
• END OF THE PERSECUTIONS—THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 253

MEMOIRS OF DISTINGUISHED HUGUENOT REFUGEES.

• STORY OF SAMUEL DE PÉCHELS 285
• CAPTAIN RAPIN, AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY OF ENGLAND" 316
• CAPTAIN RIOU, R.N. 368

A VISIT TO THE COUNTRY OF THE VAUDOIS.

• INTRODUCTORY—EARLY PERSECUTIONS OF THE VAUDOIS 383
• THE VALLEY OF THE ROMANCHE—BRIANÇON 401
• VAL LOUISE—HISTORY OF FELIX NEFF 420
• THE VAUDOIS MOUNTAIN-REFUGE OF DORMILHOUSE 437
• GUILLESTRE AND THE VALLEY OF QUEYRAS 455
• THE VALLEY OF THE PELICE—LA TOUR—ANGROGNA—THE PRA DE TOUR 472
• THE GLORIOUS RETURN: AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN VAUDOIS 493

MAPS.

• The Country of the Cevennes 98
• "The Country of Felix Neff" (Dauphiny) 382
• The Valley of Luserne 472

PREFACE.

In preparing this edition for the press, I have ventured to add three short memoirs of distinguished Huguenot Refugees and their descendants.

Though the greatest number of Huguenots banished from France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes were merchants and manufacturers, who transferred their skill and arts to England, which was not then a manufacturing country; a large number of nobles and gentry emigrated to this and other countries, leaving their possessions to be confiscated by the French king.

The greater number of the nobles entered the armies of the countries in which they took refuge. In Holland, they joined the army of the Prince of Orange, afterwards William III., King of England. After driving the armies of Louis XIV. out of Ireland, they met the French at Ramilies, Blenheim, and Malplacquet, and other battles in the Low Countries. A Huguenot engineer directed the operations at the siege of Namur, which ended in its capture. Another conducted the siege of Lille, which was also taken.

But perhaps the greatest number of Huguenot nobles entered the Prussian service. Their descendants revisited France on more than one occasion. They overran the northern and eastern parts of France in 1814 and 1815; and last of all they