Protestantism in France From Death of Henry IV to the Revolution - James Aitken Wylie

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He could not refrain from team at the sight of the unhappy beings before him, one of whom had already, though still alive, become the prey of worms. This was the terrible fate not of a few hundreds only. It is believed that at one stage of the persecution there were from 12,000 to 15,000 persons in the prisons and dungeons of France. Another mode of punishment was transportation to Canada -- the Canada of 200 years ago. This method was resorted to in order to relieve the prisons, which, full to overflow, could not receive the crowds that were being daily consigned to them. Collected from the various prisons of France, or gathered from the country around Nimes and Montpellier, these confessors of the Gospel were brought down in gangs to Marseilles, the women strapped down in carts, and the men mounted on horses, their feet tied below the animals belly. The embarkation and voyage entailed incredible and protracted suffering. The vessels that bore them across the Atlantic were small, filthy, and often unseaworthy. Nor did their miseries end with their voyage. On their arrival in 118
the New World they were sold into a slavery so cruel, that in most cases they speedily perished. Those who were thus dragged from the pleasant fields of France, and put under the lash of barbarous task-masters in a foreign land, were not the refuse of French society; on the contrary, they were the flower of the nation. In these manacled gangs were men who had shone at the bar, men who had been eminent in the pulpit, writers who were the glory of their country, and men and women of noble or of gentle birth; yet now we see them borne across the deep, and flung into bondage, because a sensualist king -- the slave of mistresses and priests -- so willed it. The policy of the persecutors was to "wear out" the Protestants, in preference to summarily exterminating them by fire and cord. It is true the murders in the fields were numerous; there were few spots in the Cevennes which martyr-blood did not moisten, but only occasionally in the cities was the scaffold set up. We select from the Lettres Pastorales of Jurieu [6] a few instances. One of the first to suffer in this way was Fulcran Rey, a young 119
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PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE FROM DEATH
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are known in history as the "civil
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possessed all her treachery, bigotr
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Government redress of their grievan
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Moderator's chair being occupied no
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sick; not to let any one from abroa
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property, which had for a half-cent
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against them at the head of his arm
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in an incessant shower upon the cit
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eginning of the sixty-eighth Psalm,
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to be in logical consistency with a
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Chapter 2 Fall of la Rochelle and E
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leading objects of his ambition, th
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put them.[1] The Huguenot body at t
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of the stronghold of the Protestant
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now commenced on the part of Buckin
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France. There seemed no alternative
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After this the Protestants could of
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passing from one victory to another
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throne. The hand of a priest has be
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troubles in which they plunged the
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same superiority in trade which dis
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the overhanging cloud. The probity
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that the year of the Huguenot conta
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In the Protestant Church the sermon
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From the pulpit we turn to the Prot
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Protestants who stood nobly out, an
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struck by a cannon-ball, and expire
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Of these four seats of Protestant l
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prodigious learning, and of equal m
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Chapter 4 The Dragonnades WE now re
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close of his life. Having quieted F
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Abroad he was Powerful, at home he
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