Disinterested Sentiments on the Retreat of the Pastors of France

Plan of this Work.

that two or three
Provinces had been attacked and the
most extreme violences committed.
One speaks in passing of the means
that these Agents have at hand
to succeed in these kinds of designs;
and one gives a general idea of the
levers original: "reſſorts," referring to the internal workings or mechanisms of a plot or political maneuver they usually employ
to succeed in their negotiations.
Finally, it is shown how
a particular set of circumstances original: "conjoncture"
suddenly determined the
persecutors to strike the great blow
of our ruin, by sending the Dragoons Dragoons: Cavalry soldiers (Dragons) used by King Louis XIV to force Protestant families to convert to Catholicism through harassment and violence, a practice known as the "dragonnades."
into the Southern Provinces,
by revoking the Edict The Edict: The Edict of Nantes (1598), which had granted French Protestants religious and civil liberties; it was revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685., and
by expelling all the Pastors of the
Kingdom; whereas, without
this circumstance, they would
apparently have been content
to continue the persecution
as they had begun it, and
to advance the design step by
step original: "pié à pié". This is the
plan of the first part, where
one treats this subject only