Dragonnades

As Dragonnades refers to the penalties of King Louis XIV of France against the Protestant camisards in Southern France, especially in the Cevennes (see Huguenots ) to force their conversion to the Catholic faith.

There stood since 1685 with the repeal of the Edict of Nantes, the exercise of the Protestant Reformed confession under punishment, but the camisards contributed delaying tactics, dragoons were quartered in the villages at the king's command. The insurgents they had to endure in their homes and pay for the food. For this, the dragoons had money extorted and harassed the women to rape. They also monitored the inhabitants of the house to prevent reading and studying the Bible and singing psalms.

When the camisards not intimidated by these harsh measures, hundreds of Protestant villages were destroyed by the king's command.

• Wars of Religion
• Protestantism in France
• Louis XIV