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Camisard   Listen
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Camisard  n.  One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.






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"Camisard" Quotes from Famous Books



... detachment which he had just destroyed. Dressing himself in that officer's clothes, he ordered his men to put on the clothing of the other dead royalists. Then he took six of his best men, with their own Camisard uniforms on, and bound them with ropes, to represent prisoners. One of them had been wounded in the arm, and his bloody sleeve helped the stratagem. Putting these six men at the head of his troop, ...
— Strange Stories from History for Young People • George Cary Eggleston



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