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Title

Relation en forme d'histoire de la revolte des fanatiques ou camisards

Authors

• La Baume, Charles-Joseph de, 1644-1715

Other related names

• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1184
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4314057
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4314057

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1707

Place

France

Summary

A first-hand Catholic account of the wars of religion in southern France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Nîmes suffered from violent confessional conflicts in the 16th century and was the place of a notorious massacre of Catholics in 1567 (known as the Michelade). The revolt of the Huguenot camisards began in 1702 and lasted until about 1710, although the final peace agreements were made only in 1715. The word "camisard" was used by French Catholics to denote Huguenots in the south-central Cévennes region. The work is divided into three books and offers detailed accounts of the violence in Nîmes and the surrounding areas. This manuscript was first edited and published in 1874 as the Relation historique de la revolte des camisards.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: [prologue] La révolte des fanatiques, ou des Camisards. (Ces deux noms leur ayant donnés indifférement)...(f. 2r); [text] Le Roy voulant faire rentrer dab le sein de l'eglise Catholique ses sujets de la Religion pretendüe Reformée...(f. 5r); Explicit: ...puisse servir à ramener sincerement les nouveaux conscrits, dans le sein de l'eglise afin que n'aiant qu'une même foy, avec les anciens Catholiques, ils vivent dans une extrême union et dans une parfaite intelligence. (f. 248v)
   

Extent

314 leaves : 260 x 185 (190 x 120) mm. bound to 265 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, 314; [iv], I-V, [i], 1-244, 244-272, 272-305, 285-304, 304-362, 362-387, 387-462, [lxxiv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; modern foliation, 1-314, in pencil, lower right recto. References are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); Histoire des Camisards on binding.

Layout

Written in 22-25 long lines.

Provenance

• This copy was made from the original mansucript that was owned by marquis d'Aubais, according to the note made by abbé Vallette dated from 1755 (f. 1v).
   
• Sold to Henry Charles Lea in 1889, inscription on first flyleaf.
   

Subjects topical

• Huguenots--France
• Protestants--France
• Camisards

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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