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3 unusual facts about Abdias Maurel


Abdias Maurel

He refused to accept the peace made by Jean Cavalier in 1704, and after passing a few weeks in Switzerland he returned to France and became one of the chiefs of those Camisards who were still in arms.

He was deeply concerned in a plot to capture some French towns, a scheme which, it was hoped, would be helped by England and Holland.

Psalmody Abbey

It was secularised in the 16th century by a bull of Pope Paul III and the buildings were largely destroyed during the war of the Camisards by Catinat, although its revenues continued to be drawn by commendatory abbots until the French Revolution.



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