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

Tiffs guerilla warfare lasted from 1702 to 1706,
and was attended with frightful slaughter on both
sides. The Cevenols joined the Camisards, which
enlarged the seat and intensified the fury of the
war. The court took the alarm, and more soldiers
were poured into the infected provinces. The more
effectually to suppress the rising, the Romanist
population were removed into the cities, and the
country was laid waste. And the work of
devastation not proceeding rapidly enough with the
musket, the sword, and the axe, the faggot was
called in to expedite it; the dwellings of the
peasantry were burned down, and the district, so
flourishing before the Revocation, was converted
into one vast gloomy wilderness. This was the last
armed struggle of the Reformation in France. No
noble or pastor took part in it; it was waged for
liberty rather than for religion, and though it
stained rather than honored the cause in the name
of which it was waged, it emboldened the
Protestants, who from this time were treated
somewhat less mercilessly, not because the
Government hated them less, but because it feared
them more.
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