CAMISARDS

kămˈĭsärdz, Fr. kämēsärˈ, Protestant peasants of the Cévennes region of France who in 1702 rebelled against the persecutions that followed the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes (see Nantes, Edict of). The name was probably given them because of the shirts they wore in night raids. Led by the young Jean Cavalier and Roland Laporte, the Camisards met the ravages of the royal army with guerrilla methods and withstood superior forces in several battles. In 1704, Marshal Villars, the royal commander, offered Cavalier vague concessions to the Protestants and the promise of a command in the royal army. Cavalier's acceptance broke the revolt, although others, including Laporte, refused to submit unless the Edict of Nantes was restored; scattered fighting went on until 1710.

See A. E. Bray, The Revolt of the Protestants of the Cévennes (1870), H. M. Baird, Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895).

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Societies in Upheaval: Insurrections in France, Hungary, and Spain in the Early Eighteenth Century
Book by Linda Frey; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: France--History--Louis Xiv, 1643-1715, Hungary--History--1699-1848, Revolutions--Europe--History--18th Century, Spain--History--Philip V, 1700-1746, Spanish Succession, War Of, 1701-1714
...Paris, 1980. Gorce Agnes de la. Camisards et dragons du roi . Paris, 1950. Grubb...Memoirs . London, 1705. Histoire des Camisards . London, 1754. Jones Peter. " Antoine...1982 94-113. Joutard Philippe. " Les Camisards: Prophetes de la grande Revolution ou...
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The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession: An Historical and Critical Dictionary
Book by Linda Frey, Marsha Frey; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Spanish Succession, War Of, 1701-1714--Treaties--Dictionaries
...Illinois, 1963. Karl W. Schweizer CAMISARDS 1702-1704 were Protestants in the Cevennes...on night raids against Catholics. The Camisards fought the royal army to a standstill...tactics. The principal leader of the Camisards was a peasants son, Jean Cavalier...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - Vol. 2
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, Charles Colebrook Sherman, George William Gilmore; Funk and Wagnalls, 1908
Subjects: Theology--Encyclopedias
...the enthusiasm and obstinacy of the Camisards is unintelligible. Terming themselves...put certain prisoners to death, the Camisards assembled at the instigation of the prophets...Vivarais, Gevaudan, and Rouergue. The Camisards never numbered more than five thousand...
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Landscapes of Loss: The National Past in Postwar French Cinema
Book by Naomi Greene; Princeton University Press, 1999
Subjects: France--In Motion Pictures, Motion Pictures--France--History, Motion Pictures--Social Aspects--France
...spirit sparked by 68: Rene Allios Les Camisards (1970). A highly politicized rereading of the French past, Les Camisards underscores the repressive nature...persecuted Protestants dubbed les Camisards after an article of dress, evokes...
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The Humanitarian Movement in Eighteenth-Century France
Book by Shelby T. McCloy; University of Kentucky Press, 1957
Subjects: France--Social Conditions
...used brutal methods, even as did the Camisards. Two years of terrorism followed, and...villages burned. On several occasions the Camisards made attacks clad in the uniform of government...moderation. He offered pardon to those Camisards who would lay down their arms and fight...
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Western Images of Islam, 1700-1900
Journal article by Philip Almond; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 49, 2003
Subjects: Christianity and other religions--Islam, Koran (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Koran (Sacred text)--Translations and translating, Muhammad--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Muhammad--Influence, Muhammad--Public opinion
...a religious fanatic, comparable to Shakers, Quakers and Camisards: "Those Tremblings, Quakings, Tossings of the Head and...43-44. (14) Anon., Four Treatises, p. 29. On the Camisards or French prophets who arrived in England around 1710, see...
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Smart's Bawdy Politic: Masculinity and the Second Age of Horn in 'Jubilate Agno.'
Journal article by Clement Hawes; Criticism, Vol. 37, 1995
Subjects: Christian poetry--Analysis, Jubilate Agno (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Themes, motives, Smart, Christopher--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...likewise symptomatic of this tendency to feminize enthusiasm that Joseph Addison--in response to the "French prophets" or Camisards, whose inspired agitations and prophetic gestures provoked a backlash in the early decades of the eighteenth century...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 25, 2002
Subjects: Biography--Evaluation, Books--Evaluation
...Right hated him. He was a visionary: he believed that revolution must serve reformism. He said (in substance) that if the Camisards (those protestants victimized by Louis XIV) had governed, they would have been "talibans"; it was his way to criticize...
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Belief, Anarchism and Modernity
Journal article by Daniel Colson; Anarchist Studies, Vol. 15, 2007
Subjects: Anarchism, Christianity, Ideology, Problems, Religion, Religious orders
...Islam; the neo-Franciscans of thirteenth-century Italy; the Czech Hussites of the fifteenth century; the Protestant Camisards of the Cevennes; and the Hassidic Jewish movements of eastern Europe - such movements constitute the most visible moments...
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La Memoire Des Guerres De Religion: La Concurrence Des Genres Historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe Siecles)
Journal article by Katherine Macdonald; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, La memoire des Guerres de religion: La concurrence des genres historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles) (Book)--Book reviews
...backdrop of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and royal persecution of Protestants during the so-called "guerre des Camisards" (1702-10). Moreover, Daniels Histoire reserves high praise for Henri IV and his ministers. Perhaps for these reasons...
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Not Such Simple Gifts
Magazine article by Lynne Stembridge; History Today, Vol. 51, January 2001
Subjects: Shakers--History
...movement can be traced back to the French Camisards, a sect of Protestants who roamed the...Edict of Nantes in 1685, a handful of Camisards fled to England. They settled into relative...Wardley left the Quakers and joined the Camisards, believing that the Second Coming was...
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Teaching Nature amid the French Mountains
Magazine article by David Blake; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, April 1994
Subjects: Cevennes, France--Natural resources, Natural history--Study and teaching, Nature study--Evaluation
...The Lozere has been described as |. . . the Cevennes of the Cevennes so typical is it of the region. It is the land of the Camisards, the Protestant rebels (named after the peasant smock or camise) who rose against Louis XIV in 1702 after the persecutions...


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Camisards
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAMISARDS kam isardz, Fr. kamesar , Protestant peasants of the Cevennes region...night raids. Led by the young Jean Cavalier and Roland Laporte , the Camisards met the ravages of the royal army with guerrilla methods and withstood...
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Cavalier, Jean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1681? 1740, French Protestant soldier, a leader of the Camisards . From his home in the Cevennes region of France, he fled...the Protestants were about to rebel. As chief leader of the Camisards, he showed remarkable military genius. In 1704 he made peace...
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Laporte, Roland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAPORTE, ROLAND rolaN laport , 1675 1704, a leader of the Camisards , known as Roland. He was noted for his fearlessness, his knowledge of military tactics, and his ability at organizing guerrilla...
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Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the War of the Grand Alliance and became (1703) a naturalized Frenchman. He subsequently helped suppress the Protestant Camisards . In the War of the Spanish Succession (see Spanish Succession, War of the ), he won the decisive victory of Almansa...
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Villars, Claude Louis Hector, Duc De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...by his victories at Friedlingen (1702) in Baden and Hochstadt (1703) in Bavaria. In 1704 he quelled the revolt of the Camisards . Defeated (1709) by the duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Malplaquet, he successfully defended the French frontier...
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