Les protestants du bocage vendéen pendant la Révolution
In the Lower-Poitou (which will later become the Vendée district), in spite of the hardships resulting from the Revocation of the Nantes Edict, remained at the end of the « Ancien Régime » an important protestant population reorganized in churches by active clergymen of the « Desert ». This was spec...
| Published in: | Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français |
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| Language: | French |
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Droz
1975
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Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français
Year: 1975, Volume: 121, Pages: 247-306 |
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| Summary: | In the Lower-Poitou (which will later become the Vendée district), in spite of the hardships resulting from the Revocation of the Nantes Edict, remained at the end of the « Ancien Régime » an important protestant population reorganized in churches by active clergymen of the « Desert ». This was specially in the district called the « Bocage » and in the triangle consisting of Pouzauges, Mouchamps, Mouilleron en Pareds and also in an area round Foussais. The so called Vendée war, vas an atrocius battle between the « Whites » or « Rebels » (Royalists) and the « Blues » or « Patriots » (Republicans). The Bocage, was a fighting area, and often devastated. In a great majority, these protestant people had welcomed the Revolution against the Bourbons, who were considered as protectors of a clericalism which had persecuted them without cease. Nevertheless, there were amongst the protestants of the Bocage, various opinions, hesitations and changes, somestimes more caused bp chance than by thought. The last clergymen of the « Desert » were either keeping silent or else had left. A few protestants had joined the Royal armies, which were often led by some great-grand sons of noblemen or burghers converted in the past, by force. Many others were in the local national Guards or had fought in the Republican armies. The protestant middle class, very often rallied to the Republican government, efficiently took on various representative functions in the new management. In all places where war was destructive, the protestant population specially suffered, and worse when the « White » armies went as far as Fontenay le Comte. Then happened the most atrocious retreat in which many of this infortunate people died. This war of Vendée may have reduced the protestant population by a third of its quantity. |
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