............... 368

A VISIT TO THE COUNTRY OF THE VAUDOIS.

I. INTRODUCTORY--EARLY PERSECUTIONS OF THE VAUDOIS........... 383

II. THE VALLEY OF THE ROMANCHE--BRIANCON...................... 401

III. VAL LOUISE--HISTORY OF FELIX NEFF......................... 420

IV. THE VAUDOIS MOUNTAIN-REFUGE OF DORMILHOUSE................ 437

V. GUILLESTRE AND THE VALLEY OF QUEYRAS...................... 455

VI. THE VALLEY OF THE PELICE -- LA TOUR -- ANGROGNA -- THE
PRA DE TOUR............................................... 472

VII. THE GLORIOUS RETURN: AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF THE
ITALIAN VAUDOIS........................................... 493

MAPS.

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THE COUNTRY OF THE CEVENNES...................................... 98

"THE COUNTRY OF FELIX NEFF" (Dauphiny).......................... 382

THE VALLEY OF LUSERNE........................................... 472

PREFACE.

In preparing this edition for the press, I have ventured to add three
short memoirs of distinguished Huguenot Refugees and their
descendants.

Though the greatest number of Huguenots banished from France at the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes were merchants and manufacturers,
who transferred their skill and arts to England, which was not then a
manufacturing country; a large number of nobles and gentry emigrated
to this and other countries, leaving their possessions to be
confiscated by the French king.

The greater number of the nobles entered the armies of the countries
in which they took refuge. In Holland, they joined the army of the
Prince of Orange, afterwards William III., King of England. After
driving the armies of Louis XIV. out of Ireland, they met the French
at Ramilies, Blenheim, and Malplacquet, and other battles in the Low
Countries. A Huguenot engineer directed the operations at the siege of
Namur, which ended in its capture. Another conducted the siege of
Lille, which was also taken.

But perhaps the greatest number of Huguenot nobles entered the
Prussian service. Their descendants revisited France on more than one
occasion. They overran the northern and eastern parts of France in
1814 and 1815; and last of all they vanquished the descendants of
their former persecutors at Sedan in 1870. Sedan was, prior to the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the renowned seat of Protestant
learning; while now it is known as the