Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region of southern France, who raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which made being Protestant illegal.
Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region, and the Vaunage in southern France. The raised an insurrection against the persecutions which followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which had made being Protestant illegal.