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Chapter V.
The Colonising Church
(Continued.)
History of the origin and destruction of the Vaudois colonies of Provence.
IN tracing the history of the Vaudois colonies
of Provence, we shall draw largely on the pages of a modern writer of great research,[1] who has given the subject his especial attention. In addition to much that is interesting and new relating to the colonies themselves, the author of The Vaudois of Provence has very clearly pointed out the distinction between this scion of the Church of the Valleys of Piedmont and the other sects of evangelical Christians, whom their opponents have included in the universal opprobrium of heresy, and under the generic appellation of heretics. The following quotation will, it is
- ↑ Les Vaudois de Provence, par Louis Frossard, Pasteur, pp. 1-12.
