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Accompanied by friends, Labadie left Montauban and travelled by way of Nîmes. He was popular here1), but on this occasion did not want his presence known to the populace; therefore, by prior arrangement, the pastors and magistrates came to meet him outside the town, from whence he journeyed to the principality of Orange. Three of his closest adherents accompanied him and he arrived on 1 August 1657.2)
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Siegmar, Graf Dohna, Aufzeichnungen über die Vergangenheit der Familie Dohna, vol.IIa, pp. 97, 98 (Berlin, 1878).
The letter is reproduced in photograph in J. de Coursac, Choses et gens du parlement d’Orange (Paris, 1934), pp. 46, 47.
Quotations from first edition, cited by A. Salomon, ‘Jean de Labadie’, B.S.H.P.F. 78 (1929) pp. 21, 22.
W.F. & F. Leemans, in their masterly study, La noblesse de la principauté d’Orange (The Hague, 1974), list many catholic Deslonges at this period, but make no mention of any having been consul.
Quoted by Marguerite-Marie Shibano, De la fondation de la Congrégation des Filles de l’Enfance à la deuxième persécution, I, 13f. Thesis, Ve section, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 1980/81.
R. de Voyer d’Argenson, Annales de la Compagnie du St. Sacrement, ed. Dom Beauchet-Filleau. p. 178. Marseille, 1900.
Daniel Benoit, ‘Un pasteur réformé au 17e siècle, Daniel Chamier...’, B.S.H.P.F. 31 (1882), pp. 145ff, gives no indication of where this letter may be found, and my exhaustive searches have failed to trace it.
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Saxby, T.J. (1987). In Demand. Labadie at Orange, 1657–1659, and his call to London. In: The Quest for the New Jerusalem, Jean de Labadie and the Labadists, 1610–1744. Archives internationales d’histoire des idees/International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3567-9_5
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