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

the maxims of our morality ate pure beyond
contradiction; we respect kings; we are good
subjects and good citizens; we are as much
Frenchmen as we are Reformed Christians."
The Protestants thought one other attempt
ought to be made, though not by arms, to recover
some little from the wreck of their liberties. They
agreed that such of their churches as were still
standing should be re-opened for public worship on
the same day in all the southern provinces of
France. This they thought would prove to the king
in a peaceable way that the abjurations, so loudly
vaunted by his counselors, were a wholesale
delusion. The project was carried into effect, but
the Government pretended to see in it insurrection,
and the poor Huguenots were visited with a yet
heavier measure of vengeance. The dragonnades
were extended to all the provinces of Southern
France. The Protestants fled to the forests, to the
deserts of the Cevennes, to the mountains of the
Pyrenees.
They were tracked by the soldiers, and on
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