War of the Camisards

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War of the Camisards
Jean Cavalier, chief camisard, painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1864.
Date July 24, 1702 (1702-July-24) – 1710[1] Location Cévennes Result Government victory
Belligerents
France	Camisards
Commanders and leaders
Louis XIV Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville Victor-Maurice de Broglie Nicolas Auguste, maréchal de Montrevel Claude Louis Hector de Villars Duke of Berwick	Jean Cavalier Roland Laporte  † Abraham Mazel  † Abdias Maurel  † Esprit Séguier Henri Castanet Jean La Rose Gédéon Laporte
Strength
20,000 riflemen and dragoons (March 1703) 3,000 Miquelets (January 1703) 2,000-3,000 militiamen	7,500-10,000
Casualties and losses
	3,000 to 4,000 dead

The War of the Camisards (French: guerre des Camisards) or the Cévennes War (French: guerre des Cévennes) was an uprising of Protestant peasants known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was a response to the Edict of Fountainebleu in 1685.