War of the Camisards

War of the Camisards
	; Jean Cavalier, chief camisard, painting by Pierre-Antoine Labouchère, 1864.
Date	July 24, 1702 – 1710
Location	Cévennes
Result	Government victory
Belligerents
France	Camisards
Commanders and leaders
Louis XIV; Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville; Victor-Maurice de Broglie; Nicolas Auguste, maréchal de Montrevel; Claude Louis Hector de Villars; Duke of Berwick	Jean Cavalier; Roland Laporte †; Abraham Mazel †; Abdias Maurel †; Esprit Séguier; Henri Castanet; Jean La Rose; Gédéon Laporte
Strength
20,000 riflemen and dragoons (March 1703) 3,000 Miquelets (January 1703) 2,000–3,000 militiamen	7,500–10,000
Casualties and losses
	3,000 to 4,000 dead

The War of the Camisards (French: guerre des Camisards) or the Cévennes War (French: guerre des Cévennes) was an uprising of Protestant peasants known as Camisards in the Cévennes and Languedoc during the reign of Louis XIV. The uprising was a response to the Edict of Fountainebleu in 1685.