[111] Page 413.
[112] The reader, if desirous of more ample information concerning this period, may peruse with advantage the work of M. Charles Coquerel, entitled: Histoire des Eglises du Désert, in two vols. 8vo. M. Coquerel had access to important documents, and has used them most judiciously. We shall have frequent occasion to refer to his work in the course of this history. The Histoire de l’Eglise Chrétienne Réformée de Nismes, by M. le pasteur Borrel, may also be consulted: the work is exact, and under a particular or local title, contains many things of general interest.
[113] Mélanges de relig. et de morale, vol. v. p. 181.
[114] Vol. xxvii. p. 514.
[115] Hist. de France pendant le dix-huitième siècle, vol. ii. p. 7.
[116] After reading the correspondence of the intendants, M. Lemontey, in his Essays upon the Monarchical Establishment of Louis XIV., asserts that certain curates required of the heretics, before they would bless their marriages, “that they should curse their deceased parents, and swear that they believed in their everlasting damnation!”—Vol. ii. p. 157.
[117] Pages 35, 103.
[118] Bibliothèque Française, vol. xxii. pp. 288, 289.
[119] Armand de la Chapelle, La Nécessité du Culte public, &c.
[120] Pages 9, 45, 46.