Religion: Camisards Revisited

The Huguenots would have been horrified by the sports shirts and ice-cream stands—but they would have been gratified at the turnout of their spiritual descendants in the little village of Mas Soubeyran in southern France last week. About 15,000 French Protestants crowded the narrow roads with their cars and buses on a pilgrimage to the thick-walled, stone peasant cottage and the tiny museum next to it, which are crammed with relics of one of the most bitter religious wars Europe has known. They were marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Cevennes region, which...

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