This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...them to be sent to penal servitude; and all who attended a Protestant service to be imprisoned for life; besides many other bitter and grievous civic disqualifications. In 1730 Pastor Franfois Roux wrote to Antoine Court a letter still preserved at Geneva, describing the meeting he had called on March 27, 1730 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...them to be sent to penal servitude; and all who attended a Protestant service to be imprisoned for life; besides many other bitter and grievous civic disqualifications. In 1730 Pastor Franfois Roux wrote to Antoine Court a letter still preserved at Geneva, describing the meeting he had called on March 27, 1730, at the "Mas des Crottes," some seven kilometres from Nlmes.1 The soldiers suddenly rushed in and secured ten prisoners. The man was condemned to the galleys, and the nine women sent to the Tour de Constance, by the judgment of the Marquis de la Fare, Intendant of Languedoc, rendered on April 3, 1730. It is to two of them that the letters so strangely found in 1880 were addressed, and they have been deciphered by the care of M. Charles Sagnier. The first was written by Catherine Gauteyret, her mother-in-law, to Suzanne Mauran, who was not yet twenty-six years old, and was the newly married wife of Barthelemy Mauran, a master baker of Nlmes. Her wedding had been first blessed (in October 1729) by a Catholic priest. But she was desirous of consecration by a pastor of her own reformed religion, and with this 1 The summons to these meetings was generally in somewhat disguised language. Here is one of them: "Garrigues, 10 Avril 1770. Monsieur Fromental m'a charge de vous ecrire pour vous prier d'aver-tir les fideles de votre eglise de se renclre vendredy prochain au porche de la Meterie de M. Bousquet de Ntme ou 1l se propose de donner a dejeune."" object she attended the meeting held at the Mas des Crottes by Francois Roux. Her state of health prevented any possibility of escaping the soldiers. Four months after her imprisonment in the Tour de Constance she gave birth to a son, who was baptized there on August 18, 1730. She was unable to read...
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