Between 1744 and 1752, in the east and in the south, six hundred Protestants are imprisoned and eight hundred condemned to various penalties.

In 1774, the two children of Roux, a Calvinist of Nimes, are carried off.

Up to nearly the beginning of the Revolution, in Languedoc, ministers are hung, while dragoons are dispatched against congregations assembled to worship God in deserted places.

The mother of M.Guizot here received shots in the skirts of her dress.

This is owing to the fact that, in Languedoc, through the provincial States-Assembly "the bishops control temporal affairs more than elsewhere, their disposition being always to dragoon and make converts at the point of the bayonet." In 1775, at the coronation of the king, archbishop Lomenie of Brienne, a well-known unbeliever, addresses the young king: "You will disapprove of the culpable systems of toleration...