Definition of Dragannade
Drag`on*nade" (drăg`&obreve;n*nād"),
n. [F., fr. dragon dragoon, because Louis
XIV., in persecuting the Protestants of his kingdom, quartered
dragoons upon them.] The severe persecution of French
Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons;
hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade.
He learnt it as he watched the dragonnades, the
tortures, the massacres of the Netherlands. C.
Kingsley.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a policy by Louis XIV to intimidate Huguenots to reconvert to Roman Catholicism
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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