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Fraissinet-de-Lozère

Part of Pont-de-Montvert-Sud-Mont-Lozère in Occitania, France

Location of Fraissinet-de-Lozère

44°22′31″N 3°42′05″E / 44.3753°N 3.7014°E / 44.3753; 3.7014CountryFranceRegionOccitaniaDepartmentLozèreArrondissementFloracCantonSaint-Étienne-du-ValdonnezCommunePont-de-Montvert-Sud-Mont-Lozère Area

38.58 km² (14.90 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

192 • Density5.0/km² (13/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

48220

Elevation669–1,699 m (2,195–5,574 ft)
(avg. 1,060 m or 3,480 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fraissinet-de-Lozère (French pronunciation: [fʁɛsin də lozɛʁ]; Occitan: Fraissinet de Losera) is a former commune in the Lozère department in southern France.^[2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Pont-de-Montvert-Sud-Mont-Lozère.^[3] Its population was 192 in 2019.^[1]

History

Fraissinet-de-Lozère was one of the earliest communities of Huguenots in France.

After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 by the Edict of Fontainebleau, several people from Fraissinet-de-Lozère fled to England or the Dutch Republic. They kept in touch with their family, though, even during the Nine Years' War (1688-1697). They managed to maintain networks, so that people, money and information would come and go from Cévennes to the Dutch Republic. An account of the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue (1692) elaborated by Dutch propaganda, very critical against Louis XIV, was thus sent and kept by the main characters of the Rouvière family, one of the most powerful groups of the village. This could mean that "newly converted" did not plainly support their king.^[4]

During the War of the Camisards, it was very close to the birthplace of the revolt, the village of Le Pont-de-Montvert. Nevertheless, the village remained loyal to the king, though it received no special treatment, and was burned down by the troops as other Protestant villages of the Cévennes in 1703.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Fraissinet-de-Lozère, EHESS (in French).
^ Arrêté préfectoral 8 December 2015
^ Stéphane Haffemayer et Ghislain Baury, "La bataille de La Hougue, de la Hollande aux Cévennes (1692)", Des galères méditerranéennes aux rivages normands. Recueil d'études en hommage à André Zysberg, (Cahier des Annales de Normandie, 36) Caen, CRHQ, 2011, p. 507-525.
^ Ghislain Baury, La dynastie Rouvière de Fraissinet-de-Lozère. Les élites villageoises dans les Cévennes protestantes d'après un fonds d'archives inédit (1403-1908), t. 1: La chronique, t. 2: L'inventaire, Sète, Les Nouvelles Presses du Languedoc, 2011, http://sites.google.com/site/dynastierouviere/