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In French History, the Protestant insurgents in the Cevennes, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, were so called, from having worn their shirts over their dre bv way of disguise on the occasion of some nocturnal attacks. Their principal leader, Cavalier, succeeded so far as to effect a capitulation in their favour with the French government. He subsequently entered the English service, and at his death was governor of Jersey. C [s. 199]