Le Mas Soubeyran
30140 MIALET
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Opening times :
from March 1st to Nov. 30th.
9:30am - 12:00pm
and 2:00pm - 6:00pm
July and August
from 9:30am - 6:30pm
tel +33 (0)4 66 85 02 72
fax +33 (0)4 66 85 00 02
In the history of French Protestantism, the expression Desert defines the period of time between the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and the French Revolution (1789).
Deprived of freedom of worship, far from the cities, hidden in isolated areas, deserts (in the wilderness, forests, caves, or gullies…), where the Protestants in France (in the Cevennes, but also in Haut-Languedoc, in Poitou, Dauphiné, Vivarais…) were obligated to live out their faith in hiding.
The word Desert also had a biblical sense for them, the 40 years the Hebrew people of Exodus wandered in the desert, a place of tribulations, temptations and despair, but also where they would hear the word of the Lord.
This chapter of history touches all of France, but specifically the Languedoc region and the Cevennes, where Protestantism was largely established at the beginning of the XVIth century.
History of the ‘Desert’ The Huguenot cross Genealogy Historical Texts