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HENRI ARNAUD (1641-1721)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 626 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI See also:ARNAUD (1641-1721)  , pastor and See also:general of the Vaudois or Waldensians of See also:Piedmont, was See also:born at See also:Embrun . About 165o his See also:family returned to their native valley of Luserna, where See also:Arnaud was educated at La Tour (the See also:chief See also:village), later visiting the See also:college at See also:Basel (1662 and 1668) and the See also:Academy at See also:Geneva (1666) . He then returned See also:home, and seems to have been pastor in several of the Vaudois valleys before attaining that position at La Tour (1685) . He was thus the natural See also:leader of his co-religionists after See also:Victor Amadeus expelled them (1686) from their valleys, and most probably visited See also:Holland, the ruler of which, See also:William of See also:Orange, certainly gave him help and See also:money . Arnaud occupied himself with organizing his 3000 countrymen who had taken See also:refuge in See also:Switzerland, and who twice (1687–1688) attempted to regain their homes . The See also:English revolution of 1688, and the See also:election of William to the See also:throne; encouraged the Vaudois to make yet another See also:attempt . Furnished with detailed instructions from the See also:veteran Josue Janavel (prevented by See also:age from taking See also:part in the expedition) Arnaud, with about r000 followers, started (See also:August 17, 1689) from near Nyon on the See also:Lake of Geneva for the glorieuse rentree . On the 27th of August, the valiant See also:band, after many hardships and dangers, reached the Valley of St See also:Martin, having passed by Sallanches and crossed the See also:Col de Very (65o6 ft.), the See also:Enclave de la Fenetre (7425 ft.), the Col du Bonhomme (8147 ft.), the Col du Mont Iseran (9085 ft.), the See also:Grand Mont Cenis (6893 ft.), the See also:Petit Mont Cenis (7166 ft.), the Col de Clapier (8173 ft.), the Col de Coteplane (7589 ft.), and the Col du Piz (8550 ft.) . They soon took refuge in the lofty and secure rocky citadel of the Balsille, where they were besieged (See also:October 24, 1689 to May 14, 1690) by the troops (about 4000 in number) of the See also:king of See also:France and the See also:duke of See also:Savoy . They maintained this natural fortress against many fierce attacks and during the whole of a See also:winter . In particular, on the 2nd of May, one See also:assault was defeated without the loss of a single See also:man of Arnaud's small band . But another attack (May 14) was not so successful, so that Arnaud with-See also:drew his force, under See also:cover of a thick mist, and led them over the hills to the valley of Angrogna, above La Tour .

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month later the Vaudois were received into favour by the duke of Savoy, who had then abandoned his See also:alliance' with France for one with See also:Great See also:Britain and Holland . Hence for the next six years the Vaudois helped Savoy against "France, though suffering much from the repeated attacks of the See also:French troops . But by a clause in the treaty of See also:peace of 1696, made public in 1698, Victor Amadeus again became hostile ,to the Vaudois, about 3000 of whom, with Arnaud, found a shelter in See also:Protestant countries, mainly in See also:Wurttemberg, where Arnaud became the pastor of Durrmenz-Schonenberg, N.W. of See also:Stuttgart (1699) . Once again (1704-1706) the Vaudois aided the duke against France . Arnaud, however, took no part in the military ' See also:opera tions, though he visited See also:England (1707) to obtain pecuniary aid from See also:Queen See also:Anne . He died at Schonenberg (which was'' the See also:church See also:hamlet of the See also:parish of Durrmenz) in 1721 . It was during his retirement that he compiled from various documents by other hands his Histoire de to glorieuse rentrfe See also:des Vaudois dons leurs vallees, which was published (probably at See also:Cassel) in 1710, with a See also:dedication to Queen Anne . It was translated into English (1827) by H . Dyke See also:Acland, and has also appeared in See also:German and Dutch versions . A part of the See also:original MS. is preserved in the Royal Library in See also:Berlin . See K . H .

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Henri Arnaud, ein Lebensbild (Stuttgart, 188o) ; A. de Rochas d'Aiglun, See also:Les Vallees vaudoises (See also:Paris, 1881) ; various chapters in the Bulletin du bicentenaire de la glorieuse rentree (See also:Turin, 1889) . . (W . A . B .

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