Two opposite influences in this period.—Severities against the pastors. —Their arrival in foreign countries.—Extensive emigration of the faithful.—Impotence of the laws and the government.—Different means of evasion.—Generosity of the Protestant countries.—Approximative number of the refugees.—[Page 333-340.]
II.
State of the Protestants in the kingdom.—How those of Paris were treated.—Additional ordinances.—Resistance in the south.—Secret assemblies.—Preachers.—Military expeditions.—Punishments inflicted upon the relapsed converts.—Louis XIV. makes a retrograde step.—The Protestant convicts.—Elie Neau.—Execution of Fulcran Rey.—Zeal and martyrdom of Claude Brousson.—[Page 340-349.]
III.
Protests of the Jansenists and certain bishops.—Prudent advice of the archbishop of Noailles and other enlightened individuals.—Persistance of the Jesuits and the majority of the clergy.—Edict of 1698.—The intendant Lamoignon de Bâville.—Murder of the arch-priest Chayla. —[Page 349-354.]
IV.
The war of the Camisards.—Religious frenzy.—The inspired obedience to the spirit.—The leaders Roland and Cavalier.—Character and manners of the Camisards.—Ill-success of the Count de Broglie. —Cruelties of Marshal de Montrevel, and of Bâville.—Arrival of Marshal du Villars.—Conference with Cavalier.—End of the war. —[Page 354-363.]
V.
Last years of the reign of Louis XIV.—Cautious treatment of the Reformed of Paris.—Influence of the Jesuit Letellier.—Declaration of 1715.—Monstrous legal fiction.—Death of Louis XIV.—Conduct of the Regent towards the Reformed.—[Page 363-367.]
VI.