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The second letter was no less violent. It was as follows: "We, Comte Roland, general of the Protestant troops of France assembled in the Cevennes in Languedoc, enjoin on the inhabitants of the town of St.
"An old castle in the Cevennes, which from the days when the Albigenses were burnt, down to the massacre of La Bagarre, had witnessed many a revolution and counter revolution, became the asylum of my wife, my mother, M, and myself. As the peaceful tranquillity of our life there was unbroken by any event of interest, I shall not pause to dwell on it.
We mounted toward them over the heads of their children the foothills, and came into a region which promised wild picturesqueness. There was an extra thrill, too, because the mountains were the Cévennes, where Robert Louis Stevenson wandered with his Modestine, and slept under the stars.
I have never seen in any of the newspapers any mention of the affairs of the Cevennes, or Grenoble, which you gave me an account of some time ago; and the Duke de Mirepoix pretends, at least, to know nothing of either. Were they false reports? or does the French court choose to stifle them?
It was because of the individual prowess which Captain Poul had displayed in his last campaign, that, at the peace of Ryswick, Baville requested that he should be attached to the army of Languedoc, and employed in putting down the insurgents of the Cevennes.
When you go below tell Breton to unpack my portmanteau." On the wharf nearest the vessel stood two women, hooded so as to conceal their faces. "There, Gabrielle; you have asked to see the Chevalier du Cévennes, that is he leaning against the railing." "So that is the Chevalier. And he goes to Quebec. In mercy's name, what business has he there?" "You are hurting my arm, dear.
Hippolyte and Marsillargues in the Cevennes, and twelve on the Peyrou at Montpellier the public place on which Protestant Christians in the South of France were then principally executed. There has been some discussion lately as to the massacre of the Huguenots about a century before this period. It has been held that the St.
It was only at a later date that details of everything came to his knowledge. In 1850 a young professor named Leroi, who had come from Paris to the college of Montauban with the most ardent republican ideas, had there married Agathe Dagnan, the youngest of the five girls of an old Protestant family from the Cevennes.
He at once determined to return, in the hope of being able to get them set at liberty. On his reaching Ribaute, to his surprise he found them already released, on condition of attending Mass. As his presence in his father's house might only serve to bring fresh trouble upon them he himself having no intention of conforming he went up for refuge into the mountains of the Cevennes.
Monsieur le Chevalier du Cévennes, son of the Marquis de Périgny, wishes to sign for Quebec." The Vicomte d'Halluys lifted his head from his arms. But none took notice of him. "What!" cried Brother Jacques. "That fop? . . . in Quebec?" "It is as I have the honor of telling you," said Du Puys. "There is something going on. We shall soon learn what it is."
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