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Etienne when in school at Violens; the road to Les Ribes was closed; and he was accordingly urged to stay over the night with the children.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

One Sunday evening our scholars and many of the Dormilhouse people, when returning home after the sermon at Violens, narrowly escaped an avalanche.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

The people who first came to hear him preach at Violens brought wisps of straw with them, which they lighted to guide them through the snow, while others, who had a greater distance to walk, brought pine torches.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

Baridon, a member of the same Les Ribes family, an intelligent young man, disabled for ordinary work by lameness and deformity, occupied himself in teaching the children in the Protestant school at Violens, whither he walked daily, accompanied by the pupils from Les Ribes.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

Half an hour higher up the valley we reached the hamlet of Violens, where all the inhabitants are Protestants.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

The present incumbent is M. Charpiot, of venerable and patriarchal aspect, whose white hairs are a crown of glory -- a man beloved by his extensive flock, for his parish embraces the whole valley, about twelve miles in extent, including the four villages of Ribes, Violens, M.nsals, and Dormilhouse; other pastors having been appointed of late years to the more distant stations included in the original widely-scattered charge of Felix

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

Violens is a poor hamlet situated at the bottom of a deep glen, or rocky abyss, called La Combe; the narrow valleys of Dauphiny, like those of Devon, being usually called combes, doubtless from the same original Celtic word _cwm_, signifying a hollow or dingle.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

A little above Violens the valley contracts almost to a ravine, until we reach the miserable hamlet of Minsals, so shut in by steep crags that for nine months of the year it never sees the sun, and during several months in winter it lies buried in snow.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

Violens he helped to build and finish the chapel, himself doing mason-work, smith-work, and carpenter-work by turns.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858