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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XLVII
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The Catholic peasants called them Camisards, the origin of which name has never been clearly ascertained.

M.de Broglie was beaten; the insurrection, which was entirely confined to the populace, disappeared all at once in the woods and rocks of the country, to burst once more unexpectedly upon the troops of the king.

The great name of Lamoignon shielded Baville; Chamillard had for a long while concealed from Louis XIV.

the rising in the Cevennes.

He never did know all its gravity.


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