The War of the Camisards (1702–1704)

Winner of the National Huguenot Society's 2024 Scholarly Works AwardThe War of the Camisards was the last of France's wars of religion and pales in comparison with the Wars of Religion of the 1500s. There were no nobles to lead the peasant armies, its active phase hardly lasted two years, and the war was limited to the Cevennes region in Southern France. For two years, the royal troops of Louis XIV battled outnumbered, ill-equipped peasants led by wool combers, shepherds, and farmers. The war mo