See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• ANTOINE COURT (1696-176o)

COURT (1696-176o)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in the See also:

• VILLAGE

village of See also:

• VILLENEUVE, PIERRE CHARLES JEAN BAPTISTE SILVESTRE (1763-r8o6)

Villeneuve-de-See also:

• BERG (Ducatus Montensis)

Berg, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of the Vivarais . He has been designated the "Restorer of Protestantism in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France," and was the organizer of the " See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church of the See also:

• DESERT

Desert." He was eight years old when the Camisard revolt was finally suppressed, and nineteen when on the 8th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1715 the See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XIV. was published, declaring that " he had abolished entirely the exercise of the so-called reformed See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion" (" qu'il avait aboli tout exercicedelareligion pretenduereform ee") . See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine, taken to the See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret meetings of the persecuted Calvinists, began, when onlyseventeen, to speak and exhort in these congregations of " the desert." He came to suspect after a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time that many of the so-called " inspired " persons were " dupes of their own zeal and credulity," and decided that it was necessary to organize at once the small communities of believers into properly constituted churches . To the See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of this vast undertaking he devoted his See also:

• LIFE

life . On the 21st of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1715 he summoned all the preachers in the See also:

• CEVENNES (Lat. Cebenna or Gebenna)

Cevennes and See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• LANGUEDOC

Languedoc to a See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference or See also:

• SYNOD
• SYNOD (Gr. vbvobos)

synod near the village of 1\,lonoblet . Here elders were appointed, and the See also:

• PREACHING (Fr. preecher, from Lat. praedicare, to proclaim)

preaching of See also:

• WOMEN

women, as well as pretended revelations, was condemned . The village of Monoblet " thus seems entitled to the See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of having had the first organized Protestant church after the revocation of the edict of See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes " (H . M . See also:

• BAIRD, HENRY MARTYN (1832—1906)
• BAIRD, JAMES (1802—1876)
• BAIRD, SIR DAVID (1757—1829)
• BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON (1823--1887)

Baird) . But there were as yet no ordained pastors . See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre Corteiz was therefore sent to seek ordination . He was ordained at See also:

• ZURICH
• ZURICH (Fr. Zurich; Ital. Zurigo)

Zurich, and from him See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court himself received ordination .

The See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of his labours for fifteen years was Languedoc, the Vivarais, and See also:

• DAUPHINE

Dauphine . His beginnings were very small See also:

• PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
• PRAYER, BOOK OF COMMON

prayer-meetings in " the desert." See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

Bit the See also:

• WORK

work progressed under his See also:

• WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876)
• WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900)

wise direction, and he was able " to be See also:

• PRESENT

present, in 1744, at meetings of ten thousand souls." In 1724 Louis XV., again 12 322 assuming that there were no Protestants in France, prohibited the most secret exercise of the Reformed religion, and imposed severe penalties . It was impossible fully to carry out this menace . But persecution raged, especially against the pastors . A See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price was set on the life of Court; and in 1730 he escaped to See also:

• LAUSANNE

Lausanne . He had already, with the aid of some of the Protestant princes, established a theological See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college (" Seminaire de Lausanne ") there, and during the remaining See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years of his life he filled the See also:

• POST

post of director . He had the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of the churches, and was really the See also:

• PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

pillar of their See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

hope . The See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

Seminary of Lausanne sent forth all the pastors of the Reformed Church of France till the days of the first French See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire . Court formed the See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing a See also:

• HISTORY

history of Protestantism, and made large collections for the purpose, which have been preserved in the Public Library of See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva; but this he did not live to carry out . He died at Lausanne in 1760 . He wrote, amongst other See also:

• WORKS

works, a Histoire See also:

• DES

des troubles des Cevennes ou de to guerre des See also:

• CAMISARDS (from camisade, obsolete Fr. for " a night attack," from the Ital. camiciata, formed from camicia—Fr. chemise—a shirt, from the fact of a shirt being worn over the armour in order to distinguish friends from foes)

Camisards (1760) . He was the See also:

• FATHER

father of the more generally known Antoine Court de Gebelin (q.v.) .

For details of his life see See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon Peyrat's Histoire des pasteurs du desert (1842; See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, 1852); Edmond See also:

• HUGUES, CLOVIS (1851-1907)

Hugues, Antoine Court, histoire de to restauration du protestantisme en France au X VIII° siecle (2nd ed., 1872), See also:

• LES

Les Synodes du desert (3 vols., 1885-1886), Memoires d'Antoine Court (1885) . E. and E . HHaag, La France protestante, vol. iv . (1884, new edition); H . M . Baird, The See also:

• HUGUENOTS

Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895), vol. ii.; cf . Bulletin de to societe de histoire du prolestantisme franrais (1893-1906) .