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dragoonade (n.)
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The dragoonade was a brutal campaign of religious persecution carried out by King Louis XIV of France in the late 17th century.
Dragoons, mounted soldiers, were sent to Huguenot communities to force them to convert to Catholicism or face severe consequences.
The dragoons engaged in various forms of intimidation and violence, including beatings, looting, and billeting in Protestant homes.
The dragoonade resulted in the exile or forced conversion of hundreds of thousands of Huguenots, leading to a significant decline in the Protestant population in France.
