Saint-André-de-Lancize (; ) is a commune in the

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department in southern

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History

History of the commune is mainly marked by the Camisards revolt, which started on 22 July 1702 in Vieljouves, a hamlet located above the village of Le Rouve. On the same evening, upon invitation by Salomon and David Couderc, two brothers living in Le Rouve, a group gathered around the woolcomber Abraham Mazel, a "prophet", who received a "divine" inspiration giving him the instruction to deliver

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made prisoners and

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by François Langlade, the abbé of Chayla at Pont-de-Montvert. The following Sunday was devoted to mobilize people who were volunteers to release prisoners. On 24 July, fifty men, armed with some guns, axes and scythes, gathered on top of Bougès mountain, at a site named "Les treis Faus" or "Les trois fayards" (meaning "Three beeches" in

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, respectively). On the same evening, around 10 AM, they entered Pont-de-Montvert while singing a

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. They asked, as their only claim, to liberate prisoners. Upon refusal, they liberated them by force, in the course of a violent fight where François Langlade died. So went the Camisards war, also called war of the

Cévennes The Cévennes ( , ; ) is a cultural region and range of mountains in south-central France, on the south-east edge of the Massif Central. It covers parts of the '' départements'' of Ardèche, Gard, Hérault and Lozère. Rich in geographical, ...

, which later on extended to the whole

area, and lasted two years.Antoine Court de Gébelin, 2009. Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des camisards sous le règne de Louis le Grand, réédition de l'oeuvre originale imprimée en 1760. Editions Lacour-Ollé, Nîmes (in French

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Places and monuments

The temple of Rouve-Bas, now desacralized and renovated by the commune, houses a place of memory dedicated to 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 Revocati ...

insurrection in the Bougès (

) massif. The place of memory is accessible to visitors (however, due to the configuration of the land, the place of memory is not accessible to people with reduced mobility) on Tuesday and Saturday from 3 to 6 PM from 15 June till 15 September. The visitor will find: * the projection of an

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montage dedicated to the war of the Camisards. * an exhibition of documents (

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) in three categories: ** documents showing the theme of the projection, tracing the difficulties then incurred by the

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and the Camisard War itself. ** documents on the very local implications of these events. ** documents evoking some recent or current situations of resistance to oppression. ** a loan library of historical books and novels about themes dear to the association in charge of the place of memory: freedom of conscience, tolerance, open-mindedness, with a youth department. The guests are available to the public and books related to the Camisard War are offered for sale. Evening and day-time entertainment takes place every year during the summer.

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