Increased severity of the ordinances against the Reformed.—Public offices.—Civil rights.—Marriage and parental authority.—Contracts and imposts.—Attacks upon property, and against liberty of conscience and worship.—Prohibition against the admission of the new Catholics to the temples.—Louvois.—Marillac.—First dragonnades in Poitou.—Emigration.—[Page 311-318.]
XVI.
Intolerable position of the Reformed.—Useless complaints.—Project of re-opening the interdicted temples.—Irritation of the court.—Cruelties practised against the religionaries of Vivarais and Dauphiny.—Affair of the church of Marennes.—Constancy of the Reformed.—Compliments of the clergy to the king.—[Page 318-323.]
XVII.
Dragonnades in Béarn.—Atrocious excesses.—The dragonnades in other provinces.—Barbarous treatment of all classes of the Reformed. —Forced abjurations and communions.—Illusions of the court.—Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.—Principal articles.—General considerations respecting the Revocation.—[Page 323-332.]
FROM THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES TO THE EDICT OF TOLERANCE.
(1685-1787.)
I.