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Name: Camisard Rebellion
Type: Event
Start: 1705
End: 1705
Parents: European wars of religion
Camisard Rebellion: All Data
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Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated CĂ©vennes region and the Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal.