François Langlade
François de Langlade du Chayla ( Abbé de Chaila ; also Abbé du Chayla ; * 1647 at Chayla d'Ance Castle in the parish of Saint-Paul-le-Froid ; † July 24, 1702 in Le Pont-de-Montvert ) was a French Roman Catholic priest, archpriest in the Cevennes and mission inspector responsible there. His cruel treatment and torture of Protestant French Huguenots was the cause of his murder and a trigger for the Cevennes War against the Camisards .
Life
Langlade comes from a noble family in Gévaudan . He was born in Chayla d'Ance Castle as the son of Balthazar de Langlade, Lord of Fraissinet, La Fargette, Villeret etc., and Françoise d'Apchier, Dame Vicomtesse du Chayla, Saint-Paul etc.
When he was young, Langlade was a missionary in Siam , now Thailand . There he was so badly injured in an argument with Buddhists that he was left behind allegedly dead. However, he survived and returned to France. There his house in Le Pont-de-Montvert also served as a prison and torture site for the Protestants. As Robert Louis Stevenson reports, Langlade is said to have "exposed the hands of his prisoners to glowing coals and tore their whiskers to convince them of their religious beliefs being misled."
He probably burned his house when it was stormed by supporters of the Protestant side and set on fire.
swell
- Alexandre Dumas : Massacres of the South (1551-1815) ( Chapter II gives an account of the life and murder of the priest of Chayla.)
- Le meurtre de l'abbé du Chaila on camisards.net, based on documents from the French National Archives (TT3 240 dossier II, folios 87 à 92, French).
literature
- Robert Poujol: L'abbé du Chaila (1648-1702): You Siam aux Cévennes . Montpellier: Presses du Languedoc; Paris: Oeil, 1986, ISBN 2859980261
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Library of Congress gives 1648 as the year of birth.
- ^ Félix Buffière: "Ce tant rude" Gévaudan, SLSA Lozère (Société des Lettres, Sciences et Arts de la Lozère), Mende, 1985, Volume I, p. 338
- ↑ Vicomte de LESCURE: Armorial du Gévaudan , Lyon, 1929, p. 203.
- ↑ Robert Louis Stevenson : Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes , in the chapter "Pont De Montvert" another short report. (English, Wikisource)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langlade, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langlade du Chayla, François de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Roman Catholic priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1647 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chayla d'Ance castle, parish of Saint-Paul-le-Froid |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1702 |
| Place of death | Le Pont-de-Montvert |