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Gard
Gard () is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 770,940 as of 2023; its prefecture is Nîmes.
Camisard
Camisards were Huguenots (French Protestants) of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal. The Camisards operated throughout the mainly Protestant Cévennes and Vaunage regions including parts of the Camargue around Aigues Mortes. The revolt broke out in 1702, with the worst of the fighting continuing until 1704, then skirmishes until 1710 and a final peace by 1715. The Edict of Tolerance
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
UNESCO World Heritage Site in France
Peace of Alès
peace treaty
1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning
Ergot poisoning incident in France
Costières de Nîmes AOC
French wine geographic appellation