Antoine Court

Antoine Court , born with Villeneuve-with-Berg the May 17th 1696 and died in 1760 with Lausanne, is a minister protesting and Historien French.

Raised in a Protestant family at the time of persecutions which follow the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Antoine Court is mixed with the disorders with the Guerre with the camisards in his last phase. Very young person, he traverses the Cevennes campaigns to hold of the clandestine assemblies where new converts gathered to listen to the reading of the Bible and its preaching, to sing the Psaumes and to request according to their faith.

In 1713, Court breaks with the Camisard S, violence and prophecy and decides in 1715 to restore the old discipline of the reformed Churches and their synodal organization (synod of Monoblet - Gard).

With the assistance of some companions whose Corteiz and Duplan, Court is ordered Pasteur in Suisse and, notwithstanding the opposition of part of the Refuge will pass its life to the task to reorganize French Protestantism, without violence but while resisting the attempts of the capacity obstinately to crush this revival.

In 1729, Court must take refuge in Lausanne where it will remain until the end of its life. It holds to with it an abundant correspondence with the pastors and the Churches of the Désert. Papers Short are deposited with Geneva. He sought to join together supports and funds for his French co-religionists persecuted and often seen as of the rebels by Protestant Europe which encouraged them to leave their country rather than to hold to with it of the clandestine worships. Short supported also the French students, future pastors and often martyrs who, starting from 1730, came to Lausanne to study with the French Seminar.

In 1744, at the time of an ultimate voyage in France, Court chaired the first national Synode churches of the Desert, manifestation of the success of its company which had been propagated little by little with the whole of the kingdom or almost. Everywhere Protestantism took again life more or less timidly. It also benefitted from it to try to regulate the Boyer schism, a great quarrel which undermined Languedocien Protestantism since about fifteen year.

Until its death, this credit restorer of Protestantism in France interceded for its co-religionists, defended them and called with the tolerance. He also worked to alleviate the quarrels, in particular between pastors, who divided them.

Short was also a historian of the war of the camisards. One owes him a Histoire of the disorders of the Cevennes or war of Camisards under the reign of Louis XIV , published by his son Antoine Court of Gébelin (Villefranche, 1760,3 vol. in-12) and wrote invaluable memories on the beginnings of his work in the Cevennes.

He wrote finally several apologies intended to obtain the recognition of a registry office and the religious Tolérance in Réformés.

Publications

Memories to be used with the history and the life of Antoine Court, 1695 to 1729 , ED. Patrick Cabanel, Pauline Duley-Haour, Paris, Editions of Paris, 1995 ISBN 9782905291400
the French and impartial Patriot , Villefranche, F. Christian, 1753, réimp. ED. Otto H. Selles, Paris, Champion, 2002 ISBN 9782745305985
Histoire of the disorders of the Cevennes or the war of the camisards under the reign of Louis large the , Montpellier, Presses of Languedoc, 2003 ISBN 9782859982607
Claude Brousson , Paris, Librairie Protestant, 1961
the François Patriot and impartial, or historical Memory from what did without more remarkable about the reformed religion , London, Pierre Chrétien, 1768
historical Mémoire from what did without more remarkable about the religion reformed, in several provinces of France, since 1744, until the present year 1751 , Paris, 1751
Letter of a patriot on the civil tolerance of the protestans of France: and on the advantages which résulteroient some for the Kingdom , Paris, 1756

References

Antoine Court and his sermons , ED. Ernest Combe, Lausanne, Georges Bridel, 1896
pH. Cardoon, Antoine Court, 1695-1760. A life with the service of the Desert , Thesis, Paris, Library of the Company of history of French Protestantism, 1981
Edmond Hugues, History of the restoration of Protestantism in France at the eighteenth century. Antoine Court according to new documents , Paris, Mr. Levy brothers, 1874

Source

Papers Short deposited at the College library and cantonal of Geneva (copy to the Library of the Company of history of French Protestantism in Paris)

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