Cartes – XVIII^e siècle

Au XVIII^e siècle, la religion réformée est interdite en France. Les protestants qui n’ont pas pris le chemin de l’exil ou n’ont pas abjuré tentent de conserver leur religion, en dépit de la répression. C’est le temps du Désert, dont on distingue deux périodes : le «Désert héroïque» (1685-1760) et le «Désert toléré», ou second Désert qui prend fin avec la promulgation de l’édit de tolérance en 1787.Les Églises tentent de se réorganiser dans la clandestinité : on compte 120 Églises restaurées en 1730.

War of the Camisards (1702-1705)

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Reorganisation of the Reformed churches as from 1715

The Desert churches (1788)

Associated notes

Le protestantisme en France après 1815 (2)

Cartes – XIX^e siècle

Délimitations des provinces et des colloques réformés en 1660

Cartes – XVII^e siècle

L'Europe à la fin du XVIe siècle

Cartes – XVI^e siècle

L'assemblée est surprise, gravure de Samuel Bastide

The “Church of the Desert” in the Heroic Period (1715-1760)

The time when Reformed Church religious practices were banned by royal edicts is called the “Desert” period. They had to be performed in secret. It is called “heroic” because, when...

Court de Gébelin (1725-1784) (1)

The tolerated “Church of the Desert” (1760-1787)

In the second half of the XVIIIth century, the marginalisation that excluded Protestants from French society gradually eased.

Édit de tolérance (1787), signé par Louis XVI, accordant l'état civil aux non catholiques (2)

The Edict of Toleration (November 29^th, 1787)

With this Edict, King Louis XVI granted the Protestants civil status. He secured their right to live in the kingdom without discrimination for religious reasons.

Antoine Court (1695-1760)

Antoine Court gave himself to the restoration and reorganisation of Protestantism in France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

Cartouche de la carte des Cévennes «Le théâtre de la guerre dans les Cévennes avec les montagnes et les plaines des environs du Languedoc.» Nieuwe Caart van Sevennes. C. Danckerts Amsterdam 1703.

The war of the Camisards (1702-1710)

The « Cévennes war » was the name given in the 18th century to the guerrilla warfare that devastated the Cévennes in the early years of the century and tried to re-establish...