Camisards

E935632

Huguenot insurgent group guerrilla movement religious rebel group

The Camisards were French Protestant (Huguenot) insurgents from the Cévennes region who waged a guerrilla war against royal and Catholic authorities in the early 18th century.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Camisards canonical	1
“The Country of the Camisards”	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Huguenot insurgent group ⓘ guerrilla movement ⓘ religious rebel group ⓘ
activeYearsEnd	1710 ⓘ
activeYearsStart	1702 ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	French Protestant insurgents of the Cévennes ⓘ
baseOfOperations	Cévennes mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ
cause	Revocation of the Edict of Nantes NERFINISHED ⓘ religious persecution of Protestants in France ⓘ
conflict	War of the Camisards NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryToday	France NERFINISHED ⓘ
enemy	Catholic militias ⓘ French royal army NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	French ⓘ
historicalPeriod	early 18th century ⓘ
ideology	Huguenot resistance ⓘ
language	French ⓘ Occitan NERFINISHED ⓘ
legacy	inspiration for later religious liberty movements ⓘ symbol of Protestant resistance in France ⓘ
mainTheologicalCurrent	millenarian Protestantism ⓘ
motivatedBy	defense of freedom of worship ⓘ opposition to forced conversion to Catholicism ⓘ
notableLeader	Abraham Mazel NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Cavalier NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre Laporte NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Laporte NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedBy	Catholic Church in France NERFINISHED ⓘ French royal authorities ⓘ Louis XIV NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedGovernment	absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV ⓘ
partOf	French Wars of Religion aftermath ⓘ
persecutedBy	dragonnades ⓘ
practice	prophetic inspiration ⓘ secret religious assemblies ⓘ
region	Cévennes NERFINISHED ⓘ Languedoc NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedEvent	Edict of Fontainebleau NERFINISHED ⓘ Edict of Nantes NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Calvinism ⓘ French Reformed Church NERFINISHED ⓘ Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
resultOf	suppression of public Protestant worship in France ⓘ
suppressedBy	Marshal Claude Louis Hector de Villars NERFINISHED ⓘ Marshal Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedWarfareType	guerrilla warfare ⓘ hit-and-run tactics ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Camisard revolt → mainParticipants → Camisards ⓘ

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes → hasPart → Camisards ⓘ

this entity surface form: “The Country of the Camisards”