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Jean Cavalier (1681 - 1740) is most famous of the chiefs and the Prophète S Camisard S.

Jean Cavalier was born the November 28th 1681 with Ribaute (canton of Anduze in the Gard). Wire of Antoine Cavalier and Elisabeth Granier, it is “Goujat” (servant) of farm of his uncle Lacombe of Vézénobres, then Mitron with Anduze. In 1701, located in assemblies Protesting be prohibited, it leaves for Geneva. It returns from there in 1702, and after the murder of the Abbé of Chayla joined in the the Cevennes the group of insurgent (which are opposed to the persecutions undergone by the Protestants) with some young people of the plain; it goes down again in September, and with Knack in knacks, its troop is equipped, aguerrit and increases.

Only or in partnership with Roland, it devastates the catholic villages and burns churches. He does not hesitate to attack the royal troops (the dragon S of Louis XIV), imposing sometimes to them cuisantes defeats like that of the Mas of Cauvi, with the doors of Alès, in December 1702, or that of the Devois de Martignargues, close to Vézénobres, in March 1704. Shortly after however, in April 1704, its troop is demolished hard with Nages (close to Nimes, its “Magasins” of Euzet discovered and plundered. It then starts negotiations with the Maréchal of Villars, deposits the weapons and leaves with a handle the faithful ones.

It joined Geneva and puts at the service duke of Savoy which gives him a load of Colonel. In 1706 it orders a regiment of the Anglo-Portuguese army made up partly of Camisards and refugees (one of its goals was to join the the Cevennes while passing by the Catalogne), but this army is demolished with Almansa, where it is seriously wounded.

In half-pay, it makes the shuttle between the England and the Holland until in 1710, and starting from this date in Ireland small pension lives which it obtained. In 1735 it is promoted Brigadier general, then in 1738 Lieutenant-governor of the Island of Jersey. He dies in Chelsea on May 17th 1740 and is buried in the cemetery of this western suburb of London (and not with Dublin in the cemetery reserved to the French refugees).

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