Dragonnades
It is at the time of a sedition against the tax with Rennes in 1636, that Richelieu resorted for the first time to a dragonnade . The principle, founded by the intendant Marillac was simple: to allow the troop all the exactions which it is usually authorized in conquered territory: plundering, rape, etc
Louvois gave it to the honor in 1681 at the expense of the followers of what the catholics called RPR (allegedly reformed Religion)
Since 1681 and especially after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 Louis XIV sends the Dragon S in all the areas of France with for mission of converting the Protestant communities by the force. bottées Missions , dragons missionaries is expressions under which one indicates the campaigns and the executors these violent interventions where, roof of refinements of cruelty, the dragonné will have to support itself the expenses of its persecution. And the troops will not fail to be made maintain luxuriously.
One children's book on Dragonnades, the night of the dragons of Sigrid and Fred Kupferman Hatchet-youth
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