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See also:ANTOINE See also:COURT (1696-176o)
, See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born in the See also:village of See also:Villeneuve-de-See also:Berg, in the See also:province of the Vivarais
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He has been designated the "Restorer of Protestantism in See also:France," and was the organizer of the " See also: The See also:scene of his labours for fifteen years was Languedoc, the Vivarais, and See also:Dauphine . His beginnings were very small See also:prayer-meetings in " the desert." See also:Bit the See also:work progressed under his See also:wise direction, and he was able " to be See also: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 was set on the life of Court; and in 1730 he escaped to See also:Lausanne . He had already, with the aid of some of the Protestant princes, established a theological See also:college (" Seminaire de Lausanne ") there, and during the remaining See also:thirty years of his life he filled the See also:post of director . He had the See also:title of See also:deputy-See also:general of the churches, and was really the See also:pillar of their See also:hope . The See also:Seminary of Lausanne sent forth all the pastors of the Reformed Church of France till the days of the first French See also:Empire . Court formed the See also:design of See also:writing a See also:history of Protestantism, and made large collections for the purpose, which have been preserved in the Public Library of See also:Geneva; but this he did not live to carry out . He died at Lausanne in 1760 . He wrote, amongst other See also:works, a Histoire See also:des troubles des Cevennes ou de to guerre des See also:Camisards (1760) . He was the See also:father of the more generally known Antoine Court de Gebelin (q.v.) . For details of his life see See also:Napoleon Peyrat's Histoire des pasteurs du desert (1842; See also:English See also:translation, 1852); Edmond See also:Hugues, Antoine Court, histoire de to restauration du protestantisme en France au X VIII° siecle (2nd ed., 1872), See also: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 and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895), vol. ii.; cf . Bulletin de to societe de histoire du prolestantisme franrais (1893-1906) . |
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