"In the desert," he replied, "and soon in heaven." He exhorted the people from the midst of the flames.

The insurrection went on spreading.

"Say not, What can we do?
we are so few; we have no arms!" said another prophet, named Laporte.
"The Lord of hosts is our strength! We will intone the battle-psalms, and, from the Lozere to the sea, Israel shall arise! And, as for arms, have we not our axes?
They will beget muskets!" The plain rose like the mountain.

Baron St.Comes, an early convert, and colonel of the militia, was assassinated near Vauvert; murders multiplied; the priests were especially the object of the revolters' vengeance.

They assembled under the name of _Children of God,_ and marched under the command of two chiefs, one, named Roland, who formerly served under Catinat, and the other, a young man, whiles a baker and whiles a shepherd, who was born in the neighborhood of Anduze, and whose name has remained famous.
John Cavalier was barely eighteen when M.de Baville launched his brother-in-law, the Count of Broglie, with a few troops upon the revolted Cevenols.