Paul Rabaut

Paul Rabaut 1718 - 1794 made career within the Church of the Desert.

Wire of a cloth merchant, Paul Rabaut is born with Bédarieux (Herault) in 1718. He becomes proposer, i.e. travelling disciple of Pasteur of the Desert.

In 1738, it is placed by the synod like proposer of the Church of Nimes. Then, it goes to Lausanne to follow courses of theology to the French Seminar. It meets Antoine Court there.

The combat for the legal recognition

Paul Rabaut incarnates the resistance of the “Desert” to legal persecution. Its ministry proceeds at one time when alternate a hard repression - its head is put at price - with periods of truce in the persecution of the Protestants had in particular, in second half of the 18th century, with the penetration of the philosophical ideas of the Lumières.

In 1741, it is with the head of the Church of Nimes from where it multiplies the steps to obtain a legal improvement of the state of the Protestants, and in particular of captive of the Tour of Constancy. Some of its writings testify some, in particular the humble Très and very respectful request of the Protestants of the province of Languedoc to the roy , (1761).

Paul Rabaut, father of Rabaut Saint-Etienne, deputy of the Third-State in 1789

Following the arrest of his/her son Rabaut Saint-Etienne, on December 5th 1793, then of its execution, Paul Rabaut is imprisoned with the citadel of Nimes. It will be released after the fall of Robespierre (July 1794), but will die one year afterwards.

See too

External bond

virtual Museum of French Protestantism

Biography

Paul Rabaut, Apostle of the Desert by Camille Rabaud, Honorary president of Consistory. 1920. Work on line.

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