War of the Camisards

War of the Camisards

Jean Cavalier, chief camisard, painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1864.
DateJuly 24, 1702 (1702-July-24) – 1710[1]
Location
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.

  1. ^ Onnekink, David (2013). War and Religion after Westphalia, 1648–1713. Ashgate Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 9781409480211. Retrieved 13 June 2018.