On The Late Persecution Of The Protestants In The South Of France

Claude was a French Protestant divine and a professor of theology at the Protestant college of Nîmes. After the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), which revoked the civil rights of French Protestants and outlawed Protestantism, he fled to the Netherlands, where he received a pension from stadtholder William of Orange, who commissioned him to write an account of the persecuted French Protestants, Plaintes des Protestants cruellement opprimés dans le royaume de France (1686). The book, which includes the text of the 1685 edict, was translated into English, but the translation and the French-language original text were publicly burnt by the common hangman by order of King James II in 1686 because it contained passages that criticized the king of France.

Excerpt from Statements of the Persecution of the Protestants in the South of France: Since the Restoration of the Bourbon Family; Containing a Petition, Addressed to Lewis the Eighteenth, by the Principal Protestants of Nismes; A Narrative in Defence of the Protestants of Lower Languedoc, Which Was Laid Before the King; And Other Importan I wish to add, that the Pamphlet was put: into my hands already translated and printed, that I was only allowed a few days to draw up the hasty sketch and preface which ao company it and that the first edition was hurried through the press with so much rapidity as not to allow time for a revisal. The present edition appears in a corrected form, and contains some further information of considerable importance, for which the reader is referred to the Appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.