CAMISARDS

Huguenot peasants of Cevennes, who from 1702 onwards maintained an armed resistance against Dragonnades. The persecution began early as 1681, when Louis XIV. dragoons in Prot. houses to them to renounce their faith. name is derived from the smock worn over the armor in night to distinguish friends from Portugal’s greatest poet; 6. of noble descent; graduated at Univ., of which he was an poor student’; removed to at age of eighteen, and became a Im 1544 he made the chance of thirteen, in attendance upon the For Cater in a C. conceived a pa ion, which she appears to reciprocated, but her parents discouraged the affair, which ultimately to the poet being banished from C. had already written a numof poems inspired by his love for and others were produced his absence. In 1547 he entered army, and for over two years was at where he lost the use of his right a skirmish. returned to Lisbon in 1550, and, no employment, he seems for years to have led a disorderly was imprisoned for a ault upon a servant, and was only released volunteering for service in India. seeing Cater in a for the last time, poet shipped for Goa in 1553, and not return to Portugal for sixteen years. During this period of service ©, wrote his masterpiece, Lusiads, on the explorations of da Gama, It consists of ten