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1819, a great number of the inhabitants of the Cevennes threatened the town of Nismes—"Thirty thousand men are ready to descend from their mountains, with the weapons of despair, if the salvation of their brethren demand it,"—the persecutions of the Protestants were put a stop to. See Histoire des Camisards, (2 vols, London, 1744); Court de Gebelin, Le Patriote français et impartial, (2 vols, Villefranche, 1753); by the same, Histoire des troubles des Cevennes, ou de la guerre des Camisards, (3 vols, Villefranche, 1760, new edition 1820); Schulz, Geschichte der Camisarden (Weimar, 1790); and Tieck's novel, Der Aufruhr in den Cevennen (Berlin, 1826).
