Associations to the word «Camisard»

Wiktionary

CAMISARD, noun. (historical) One of the French Protestants of the Cevennes region of south-central France, who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

Wise words

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