Catholic and Reformed commissioners sent into the provinces.—Vexatious measures.—Captious writings of the Jesuits.—Declaration of 1663 against relapsed converts.—Other ordinances.—Exclusion of the Reformed from public offices.—Probity of the Reformed in the departments of finance.—Puerile annoyances.—General declaration.—First emigration.—Prohibition against emigration.—Turenne’s abjuration. —_Page 292-300._ XIII. New projects of union.—Uselessness of these attempts.—The Jansenists and the Jesuits.—Difference in their plans.—Numerous and iniquitous ordinances.—Controversies.—Writings of Arnault and Nicole, and replies of the Reformed.—The book of the Exposition.—Controversy between Bossuet and Claude.—_Page 300-305._ XIV. The jubilee of 1676.—Growing devotion of Louis XIV.—Bad education of this monarch, and his ignorance on matters of religion.—Purchase of consciences with money by Pelisson.—Frauds.—New law against relapsed converts.—Madame de Maintenon.—Systematic project for the extirpation of heresy.—Excesses of the populace.—_Page 305-310._ XV. Increased severity of the ordinances against the Reformed.—Public offices.—Civil rights.—Marriage and parental authority.—Contracts and imposts.—Attacks upon property, and against liberty of conscience and worship.—Prohibition against the admission of the new Catholics to the temples.—Louvois.—Marillac.—First _dragonnades_ in Poitou.—Emigration.—_Page 311-318._ XVI. Intolerable position of the Reformed.—Useless complaints.—Project of re-opening the interdicted temples.—Irritation of the court.—Cruelties practised against the religionaries of Vivarais and Dauphiny.—Affair of the church of Marennes.—Constancy of the Reformed.—Compliments of the clergy to the king.—_Page 318-323._ XVII. _Dragonnades_ in Béarn.—Atrocious excesses.—The _dragonnades_ in other provinces.—Barbarous treatment of all classes of the Reformed. —Forced abjurations and communions.—Illusions of the court.—Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.—Principal articles.—General considerations respecting the Revocation.—_Page 323-332._ BOOK THE FOURTH. FROM THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES TO THE EDICT OF TOLERANCE. (1685-1787.) I. Two opposite influences in this period.—Severities against the pastors. —Their arrival in foreign countries.—Extensive emigration of the faithful.—Impotence of the laws and the government.—Different means of evasion.—Generosity of the Protestant countries.—Approximative number of the refugees.—_Page 333-340._ II.