Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France (1688) - Page 4

Plan of this Work.

of having acted thus, the Court, after having destroyed several individual Churches one after the other, ventured to attack the entire body of all the Churches of a large Province, by sending the Dragoons Dragoons: Cavalry soldiers (Dragons) used by Louis XIV to harass Protestant households into converting to Catholicism, a brutal practice known as the "dragonnades." to Poitou Poitou: A region in western France that was a stronghold of the Huguenot population and the site of the first dragonnades in 1681..

It is shown next how the Court, having noticed by this trial run that it was easy to oppress all the Reformed original: "Reformés" of the Kingdom by the most violent means, without fearing any unrest original: "émotion," referring here to a popular uprising or public outcry on their part, thought only of taking some measures to prevent the disadvantageous effect that the persecution might have on foreign Protestants. One speaks on this subject of the measures it took for this purpose, and the efforts that the Ministers and Agents of France made to portray the persecution as a chimera Chimera: A fabrication or illusion; the French government officially denied that any violent persecution was taking place to avoid international backlash., at the very time when it was already quite cruel,