CAMISARDS - ROUSSES

Here in the Cevennes, the Reformation had many followers. Attached to their lands and their beliefs, they suffered what is called "dragonnades" in the history of France. A semblance of peace returned, the inhabitants of the "country" could model this territory. Today, the drailles on the ridges and rivers at the foot of these shale hills now invite us more to escape than to think of these periods of unrest.