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Dragonnade
Dragonnade Drag`on*nade" (dr[a^]g`[o^]n*n[=a]d"), n. [F., fr.
dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the
Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis
XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid
and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the
tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. --C.
Kingsley.
Meaning of Dragonnades from wikipedia
- The
Dragonnades was a
policy implemented by
Louis XIV in 1681 to
force French Protestants known as
Huguenots to
convert to
Roman Catholicism. It involved...
- of the
Huguenot Protestant minority and
subjected them to a wave of
dragonnades,
effectively forcing Huguenots to
emigrate or convert,
virtually destroying...
- Protestants,
particularly by
forcing Protestants to
lodge a
dragoon (
dragonnades) in
their house to
watch over them at the householder's expense. Early...
-
arguments in a
variety of
contexts have been
denied in
other cases.
Dragonnades List of
amendments to the
United States Constitution Quartering Acts...
-
after the
return of ****cution
under Louis XIV, who
instituted the
dragonnades to
forcibly convert Protestants, and then
finally revoked all Protestant...
- the
Edict of
Fontainebleau by
Louis XIV of
France and the
following dragonnades.
Prussian monarchs,
beginning with
Frederick William,
Elector of Brandenburg...
-
Edict of
Nantes and for the
dragonnades, but
recent investigations have
shown that she
opposed the
cruelties of the
dragonnades,
though she was
pleased with...
-
religion on France: that of Rome. As
early as 1681 he
instituted the
dragonnades which were
conversions enforced by dragoons,
labelled "missionaries in...
-
partake of his religion"). He
claimed also the
credit of
inventing the
dragonnades, and
mitigated the
depredations of the
soldiery only
insofar as the licence...
- of the
provisions of the Edict. In 1681, he
instituted the
policy of
dragonnades, to
intimidate Huguenot families to
convert to
Roman Catholicism or emigrate...
