Réveil

Reveil (French: " Awakening ") is the name of a 1814 revival incurred within the Reformed Church of Western Switzerland and France.

The nickname of their supporters was also mômiers ( Mucker ). The movement was initially under the influence of Julian of Kriidener and later of Methodism. She accused the Reformed state church of apostasy from true Christianity, collected in conventicles and put emphasis on a strict religious lifestyle.

Under the influence of Scots Robert Haldane (1764-1812) there were 1815 in Geneva a revival. From 1817 on various Christian communities arose there. The Geneva Reveil was the starting point of the revival in French Protestantism.

1825 revival by the Geneva preacher Félix Neff ( 1798-1829 ) was born in the Waldensian valleys.

From the Reveil went in 1831 the Lutheran Society in Geneva show, which was built in 1832 own preacher school. 1848 united the various dissident communities to a Protestant Free Church ( Église libre ), which since then is next to the State Church ( Église national). In Vaud also emerged in these years a Reformed free church whose spiritual father Alexandre Vinet was.

Leading personalities of the Reveil were Henri -Louis Empaytaz, César Malan, Louis Gaussen, Ami Bost, Antoine Galland and Jean-Louis Adolphe Monod.