dragonnade

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They refused to be converted by the priests; and then Louis XIV. determined to dragonnade them.

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  1. See dragonade.

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  • They refused to be converted by the priests; and then Louis XIV. determined to dragonnade them. —  The Huguenots in France
  • It was intended at first to quarter these troopers on Roupeiroux, the King's adjutant; but having promptly changed his religion to avoid the horrors of the dragonnade, they were removed to the house of De Péchels, and he was ordered by —  The Huguenots in France
  • Gauthier, "commandant of the Paris detachment of Searchers, and charged with the powers of the Committee of Supervision," makes his patriotic circuit, and Roland knows beforehand of what that consists, namely, a dragonnade [3276] in regular form on the domains of all nobles, absent or present. [ —  The French Revolution - Volume 2
 

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