Camisard

Le Musée du Désert, in the farmhouse birthplace of Camisard leader Roland, in the village of Mialet, is as fascinating as the museum in a former silk mill in nearby Saint-Jean-du-Gard, homage to an industry killed off not by disease but by artificial textiles in the 1950s.

With nothing of the Camisard about him, he invincibly recalls one of those sunny, self-possessed sons of Provence.

The Inspired Societies in Wetterau.—After the unfortunate issue of the Camisard War in a.d.

At the head of the Camisard army was a young peasant, Jean Cavalier, who by his energetic and skilful conduct of the campaign astonished the world.

He organized the Camisard forces and maintained the most severe discipline.