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Dragonnade
Dragonnade Drag`on*nade" (dr[a^]g`[o^]n*n[=a]d"), n. [F., fr.
dragon dragoon, because Louis XIV., in persecuting the
Protestants of his kingdom, quartered dragoons upon them.]
The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis
XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid
and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the
tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. --C.
Kingsley.
Meaning of Dragonnade from wikipedia
- The
Dragonnades were a
French government policy instituted by King
Louis XIV in 1681 to
intimidate Huguenot (Protestant)
families into
converting to Catholicism...
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after the
return of ****cution
under Louis XIV, who
instituted the
dragonnades to
forcibly convert Protestants, and then
finally revoked all Protestant...
- of the
Huguenot Protestant minority and
subjected them to a wave of
dragonnades,
effectively forcing Huguenots to
emigrate or convert,
virtually destroying...
- Protestants,
particularly by
forcing Protestants to
lodge a
dragoon (
dragonnades) in
their house to
watch over them at the householder's expense. Early...
- attack, he
tried to
convert the
Huguenots by
force by
sending armed dragonnades (soldiers) to
occupy and loot
their houses. Finally, the 1685
Edict of...
- the
Edict of
Fontainebleau by
Louis XIV of
France and the
following dragonnades.
Prussian monarchs,
beginning with
Frederick William,
Elector of Brandenburg...
-
oppression before and
during the
American revolution.[citation needed]
Dragonnade Mutiny Acts
Billeting William Winthrop,
Military Law and Precedents, 19–20...
- of the
provisions of the Edict. In 1681, he
instituted the
policy of
dragonnades, to
intimidate Huguenot families to
convert to
Roman Catholicism or emigrate...
- "Sun King,"
initiated the ****cution of
Huguenots by
introducing the
dragonnades in 1681. This wave of
violence intimidated the
Protestants into converting...
-
official the
policy of ****cution that was
already enforced since the
dragonnades that he had
created in 1681 to
intimidate Huguenots into
converting to...
