Camisards
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Camisards were Huguenots 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 followe
Protestant satirical drawing of a "dragoon missionary" converting a "heretic", 1686
Monument at Devès de Martignargues
Title and illustration of an anonymous handbill printed in London in 1707. The picture shows Élie Marion, Jean Daudé, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, leaders of the so-called French prophets, standing on the scaffold at Charing Cross after being sentenced to the pillory for sedition.
Aigues-Mortes
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Aigues-Mortes is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitania region of southern France. The medieval city walls surrounding the city are well preserved. Situated on the junction of the Canal du
City walls
Louis IX on a ship departing from Aigues-Mortes, for the Seventh Crusade
The Canal du Rhône à Sète traversing Aigues-Mortes
Letter from Mr. Fargeon, administrator of the Canal of Aigues-Mortes, 25 November 1806