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occasion ; iiad he not possessed courage , prudence and eloquence ; above ^ had he not bkm : ^ £ | 3 te * exe ^ tthe irresistible empi re of yijrtlie oyjer those w&o appreciate it j had he not possessed an union of qualities so rarely found in one person , France n ^ ight have b ^ en agitated by a religious war ,
and the Southern proi ^^ s ^ especially deluged with blood ; for , tnese were miseries which tyranny and intolerance seemed obstinately determined to pgjpduce . How ought we to congratulate ourselves that a man who possessed Rabaut ' s means , employed them solely
in guiding the Protestants Jo vi | $ ue , at a time when the ruling powers appeared resolved , by their inflexible harshness , to drive them intd errotiW : > 3 ^<| 7 ivhole of France , the goyernment , and more particularly the Southed ^ r ^ piices of the empire , are under great obligation to that virtuous pastor .
The Protestants in the environs of Castres had raised a building , where they performed their relSgiouiiservices - they wese denoii | jped to ther minister , Count de Saiat ^ feloreniin , who was known to be a persecutor , as having erected a temple . The Cpt * ut qrdered Prince 4 e Beauvemii then
commandant of the province , to send a regiment to the place , and ha # e the edifice destroyed in the most ; public manner . The commandant . communicated _ to Paul Rabaut the letter he had received ,
and by his mediation induced the Protestantsi themselves to demolish the building : there was no publicity , no sending of troops , no punishments , no dragooning , and the or < ler was not a moment resisted . This was i ^ ot the
only act of fcinctoffis performed * in Languedoc pyt the Princ < e de © eauveau , Hfhose memory wUJL there , h& long p ^ risjhed ; npr wa ^ thos tbe ' TOily time that the wisdom and influence of , #£ pl Rabaut weye successfully employed by author . .. ¦ " /' . , : ; . ,, j ' :- ^ , , '
It mih per ^ M fa ® : x 3 fi < l * b ^ t the commandant perform ^( Ji only Jb % duty , ; we acjq ^ wj ^ fe ^ ^^ ^ P , mW A ^ : ? 7 J *^^ 33 * W ^^ ^^ pfepw ;
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semblies . His unhappy fate is vveH kno ^ Hn : p | % j \^ i ^^> t 3 f the illustrious victims' of thf Bm ^^ m ^ l ' ^ Hi ^ & vatj ^ literature ^ it ^^^ B - anil Has left behind him several works of ta ^ te and erudition . < If tfo& appellation ^ f mini&ter . of the gospel had iket iftifen been a tilte o £ proscription , he would doubtless nave been member of several academies : his acquirements seemed , to destine his name to be uiicribfed in
the most learned institutions bf France . The second is Rat ^ ut * -Pomiei ? , who , as a member of the Convention , shared the proscription and the imprisonment of his brother ; but his Ufe was saved . Ife h now a Member of the Legipndf Honour , and one of the President Pastors of the Reformed Clh ^ urch . at
Paris , where , with extensive knowledge and talents for the pulpit , he follows in the footsteps and imitates the virtues of his father , whom in disposition he strongly resembles . The youngest , Rabaut-Dupui , Men > - ber of the L&mond * JH [ onneur of the Cornell des Anciens , and lastly of thie Corps LSffislatify and one of its former
presidents , is at the present time Consettler de Prefecture de P Heruult . He also was marked out as a victim during the reign of terror , and at that period evinced great courage . * $ ' * The fether was doomed to suffer in
his old age from the ^ excesses of the Revolution , After naving seen the eldest of his sons perish ^ and mpuiTied the proscription of the two others > he was nimseif imprisoned ; ^ and % we ^ re eye and ear witnesses of his resignation at that terrible moment .+ The . cahfc ^
ness of his mind wast undisturbed : By personal ; considerations $ all his anxiety was for his children and for thosb of the other prisoners who ; shal ^ d ^ Efis fate ; all of whom he comfiirtedSfa f d sustained by his example ^ ^' m a o ^ We . had takenLavB ^ &fam . AqdS&iqpx
ot this unfoi ^ aniate ^ ild ^ ii ^ efforts of our « e ^ were ^ fii ^ opped by our oiwn , impr isonment . ^ € > n \ % } p& . 9 th , of < 3 % 6 rwi ^ £ - . <»^^ " ^^ . V ; ^ t ^ U 4 \ i . V . •• . ¦¦¦ . * I ¦ K , H $ Mfc iM ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1820, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2486/page/7/
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