Claude Brousson

Claude Brousson is a minister Protesting, born with Nimes in 1647, died in 1698.

Lawyer with Toulouse, Claude Brousson preaches the passive resistance of the Protestants against the royal policy; he is constrained to leave the France. He takes refuge in Suisse in 1683, then in Holland where the General states make him a pension; but several times, it returns secretly, and preaches in several provinces, especially in the the Cevennes. On its return in 1689, the situation worsened with the revocation of the Édit of Nantes. Claude Brousson becomes Pasteur, animates many clandestine assemblies in the Cevennes and Low-Languedoc, then in the provinces of North. Its clandestine sermons are published in all Europe. In 1698, Claude Brousson is stopped with Oloron; it is delivered to the torture of the wheel in Montpellier, like culprit to have preached the insurrection and to have maintained the intelligences with the enemy.

To the 19th century, the Dictionnaire Bouillet announces that it left curious a Relation about the wonders that God made in the Cevennes , 1694.

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