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  Dragonnade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A policy, commonly called in French "dragonnades", was instituted by Louis XIV in 1681 in order to intimidate Huguenot families to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
This persecution of their religious brethren caused outrage in England and sustained a wave of literature protesting against the inhuman treatment of the Huguenots, thousands of whom flocked to English shores seeking asylum.
Louis's "dragonnades" policy was so brutal that it caused great numbers of Protestants to flee France even before the religious rights granted them by the Edict of Nantes were removed in 1685.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dragonnade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A policy, commonly called in French "dragonnades", was instituted by Louis XIV in order to intimidate Huguenot families to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
The cannonade of the Isle of Re presaged to him the dragonnade s of the Cevennes; the taking of La Rochelle was the preface to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
A policy, commonly called in French " dragonnades ", was instituted by Louis XIV in order to intimidate Huguenot families to reconvert to Roman Catholicism.
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 Dragoon - LoveToKnow 1911
Thus "dragoon" came to mean medium cavalry, and this significance the word has retained since the early wars of Frederick the Great, save for a few local and temporary returns to the original meaning.
The phrases "to dragoon" and "dragonnade" bear witness to the mounted infantry period, this arm being the most efficient and economical form of cavalry for police work and guerrilla warfare.
The "Dragonnades," properly so called, were the operations of the troops (chiefly mounted) engaged in enforcing Louis XIV.'s decrees against Protestants after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
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 Dragonnade
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 Strelets-R - Military Miniatures of Distinction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As for France itself, dragoons were quartered in Cevenne and other places where the most stubborn Huguenots were living, succeeding in bringing them into the lap of the Catholic mother church.
It’s hard to say now how many “lost sheep” were converted, but the very word “dragonnade” for years became synonymous with terror.
Despite all of this, dragoons were brave and merry lads always ready to have a good fight in a tavern for a local “beauty” or in the king’s glory at war — wherever the commanders thought appropriate to send them.
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 Historische jeugdboeken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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Voor de tweede maal worden de hugenoten het slachtoffer van een 'dragonnade', de gedwongen inkwartiering van koninlijke dragonders, die als beesten tekeer gaan.
Zij roosteren Sarah bij het haardvuur om haar ertoe te brengen haar geloof af te zweren.
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 Louis Lacour
La carte à payer d'une dragonnade normande en 1685.
Nous tirons d'un carton des archives de l'Empire le dossier d'une réclamation adressée, avec pièces justificatives, à l'un des secrétaires d'Etat de Louis XIV, relativement à des frais de dragonnade non acquittés, et qui tombaient, bien entendu, à la charge du dragonné.
Il s'agit donc d'une dragonnade normande et il va être curieux de voir comment, dans cette riche contrée, se nourrissaient les suppôts de l'intolérance religieuse.
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 dragonnade - meaning and definition of the word.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
dragonnade - meaning and definition of the word.
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 Louis Lacour : La carte à payer d'une dragonnade normande en 1685 (1857).
Louis Lacour : La carte à payer d'une dragonnade normande en 1685 (1857).
LACOUR, Louis (1832-1891) : La carte à payer d'une dragonnade normande en 1685.
Nous tirons d'un carton des archives de l'Empire (1) le dossier (2) d'une réclamation adressée, avec pièces justificatives, à l'un des secrétaires d'Etat de Louis XIV, relativement à des frais de dragonnade non acquittés, et qui tombaient, bien entendu, à la charge du dragonné.
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 WebRoots Library U.S. Journeys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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Within a few days after the fatal October 18, 1685, a dragonnade Page 7 scattered Durand's kinsmen and plundered his property with theirs, but our author himself escaped arrest by the accident of being at the moment on his Provençal lands.
Collecting all his available money, he fled to Marseilles.
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 Dragonnade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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