About This Book
The narrative traces over two and a half centuries the cycles of religious violence in southern France, focusing on a provincial city as a recurring center of clashes between Catholic and Protestant communities. It recounts arrests, executions, spontaneous uprisings and retaliatory massacres, the emergence and consolidation of Protestant congregations, and the shifting interplay between municipal authorities, military forces, and royal power. Through episodic vignettes and biographical sketches the account shows how persecution, proselytism, and political change produced enduring sectarian divisions and repeated communal bloodshed.