Maximilien Misson

François Maximilien Misson (* 1650 (?); † 1722 ) or Maximilien Misson or Maximilian Misson (sometimes comes across the name variant "Mission") was a French travel writer and a Paris councilor.

Life

Nouveau Voyage d'Italie , 1724

The Norman Huguenot Misson went to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by King Louis XIV. In the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685) to England . From there he accompanied the brothers James and Charles, grandsons of the Duke of Ormond , as court master from 1687 to 1688 , on their grand tour through Holland , Germany and Italy . His later published "Reise nach Italien" is one of the most important Italian handbooks of the 18th century.

Out of a prophetic sense of mission, Misson turned to the Pope in Rome and the Sultan in Constantinople to help his fellow believers.

Le Théâtre sacré des Cévennes

His book Le Théâtre sacré des Cévennes (1707) is an anthology of around twenty Camisard self-testimonies, the most important source on the Cevennes Wars and their Protestant convulsionaries and prophets as well as their military leaders ( Abraham Mazel , Élie Marion , Jacques Bonbonnoux , Jean Cavalier etc.). The English version was published by John Lacy in London in 1707 under the title "A Cry from the Desart", as the presence of the fled enthusiasts and prophets in the country aroused great public interest.

Both editions were used for the German translation of the "rare and peculiar Tractätlein" published in 1712 under the title Heiliger Schau-Platz Der Landschaff Cevennes, or historical narration of many miracles that happened a short time ago in France under the Cevennes in the province of Languedoc, and evidenced by court-summoned statements and other testimonies appeared.

The work is considered to be the most important interior view of this bloody religious war that devastated the whole of southern France. The current barreness of some parts of this area is due to the scorched earth policy of the central authority of that time. The prophetic movement covered the area of ​​today's Drôme , the Vivarais , the Cevennes and the Bas-Languedoc between 1688 and 1702 .

In Germany, the Hölderlin friend Isaak Freiherr von Sinclair published his three-part tragedy about the Cevennes War in 1806, which Ludwig Tieck inspired for his novella Der Aufruhr in den Cevennes (1826).

Fonts

• Mémoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angleterre de François Maximilien Misson. La Haye 1698
• Nouveau Voyage D'Italie. Avec un Mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. 3 volumes, Quatrième Edition, Plus ample & plus correcte que les précédentes; & enrichie de nouvelles figures, van Bulderen, La Haye 1702
  • Maximillian Missons… trip to Italy: increased with lots of new notes and figures. Fritsch, Leipzig 1713
  • A New Voyage to Italy. With Curious Observations on several Other Countries 4th edition, with large additions throughout the Wohle, 4 volumes, Bonwicke [u. a.], London 1714
  • Voyage d'Italie. Utrecht 1722 (5e éd. Plus ample et plus correcte que les précédentes et augmentée d'un quatrième volume, traduit de l'anglois, et contenant les remarques que M. Addison a faites dans son Voyage d'Italie)
  • Voyage d'Italie. Ed. aug. de remarques nouvelles & interestinges, 4 volumes, Clausier [a. a.], Amsterdam 1743
• Mélange de littérature historique et critique sur tout ce qui regarde l'état extraordinaire des Cévenols appelés camisards. London 1707.
• Avertissements prophétiques d'Elie Marion. London 1707.
• Le Théâtre sacré des Cévennes. London 1707.
  • Holy show place of the landscape of Cevennes, or historical narration of many miracles, which happened recently in France under the Cevennes in the province of Languedoc, and are proven by court-summoned statements and other testimonies. Rothe, Frankfurt 1712.
• Sentimens désintéressez de divers théologiens protestans sur les agitations et sur les autres particularitez de l'état des prophètes. chez Robert Roger, Londres 1710 (Note: L'auteur est Maximilien Misson d'après une note ms. de Samuel Chappuis dans l'exemplaire BCU Lausanne)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Misson, Maximilian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1868, p. 366 ( digital copy ).
• Otto H. Selles: Des convulsions à Paris et dans les Cévennes: le jansénisme convulsionnaire et le protestantisme prophétique selon Louis-Basile Carré de Montgeron et Maximilien Misson. In: Chroniques de Port Royal. Vol. 47, 1998, pp. 405-428.
• Hubert Bost: De la secte à l'église. The quête de légitimité dans le protestantisme méridional au XVIIIe siècle . In: Rives méditerranéennes Vol. 10, 2002, pp. 53-68

Web links

• Information on Maximilien Misson in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• theatra.de