Champdomergue is a hill in the commune of

Le Collet-de-Dèze Le Collet-de-Dèze (; oc, Lo Colet de Dèsa) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France. See also *Communes of the Lozère department The following is a list of the 152 communes of the Lozère department of France ...

, where on 11 September 1702 the

Camisard Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation ...

s fought a battle against the royalist forces with no clear outcome. This was the first battle in the Wars in the Cévennes. In 1943-44 it was a stronghold of the

Maquis Maquis may refer to: Resistance groups * Maquis (World War II), predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance * Spanish Maquis, guerrillas who fought against Francoist Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War * The network ...

resistance movement who were preparing for the liberation of the Alès basin. There are two monuments in the garrigues on the summit of the hill commemorating these events. A third monument is to the prophet Françoise Bres, who was executed by hanging at Pont-du-Montvert, 25 January 1702. In addition to being an important site for France's protestant minority, the hill has also attracted tourism for its historical significance and hiking trail.

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