Sommières
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Sommières is a commune in the Gard department in southern France, located at the border with the Hérault department.
Vidourle and the Roman Bridge
The medieval centre of Sommières
The 2002 floods at Sommières
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
Sommières
…1625 when the Protestant Duke of Rohan entered the city. He was to leave in haste and the Catholics were back. In 1703, Jean Cavalier the leader of the Camisards with a force of 800 men unsuccessfully attempted to take the city. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes left the Protestants in a dangerous situation…
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.