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Les tremblements de terre sont les grands absents des manuels scolaires, les oubliés de l'histoire de France. Pourtant, l'exploration des archives et des sources historiques fait apparaître que plus de 750 séismes ont frappé le territoire français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, dont plus de 250 ont causé des dommages matériels, pour certains considérables. Grégory Quenet révèle ici un pan ignoré de la mémoire longue de la " nation France ", tout en mettant au jour de curieux épisodes : quelques jours après son mariage avec Marie-Thérèse, dans les Pyrénées, le jeune Louis XIV ressent le terrible tremblement de terre du 21 juin 1660 et cette coïncidence suffit pour faire cou...
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The history of Jean de Labadie and the Labadists has re ceived attention through the years. That attention, however, has more often than not fallen short in its tracing of Labadie's 'double migration'. Disaffected with the established church order of his day and motivated by a sense of prophetic mis sion to establish again the life of the primitive church, this spiritual nomad wandered from France to Switzerland, then to the United Provinces, Germany and Denmark, according to the vicissitudes of the times. As he went, he changed his affiliations from 'high' church ever 'lower', from the bosom of Rome to Calvinism, then to congregational separatism. Thus there has been ample reason to treat L...
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