The French Huguenots

This week we had a short vacation. It was fun to get away and to see some of the beautiful sites here in France. It was sobering, however, to visit the "Desert Museum" which is a tribute to all of the French Huguenots who were martyred, imprisoned or deported during the time in history when France wanted "one king, one law and one religion." The price they paid for there faith is great, but the price that France paid for persecuting them is even greater. The left picture is the Tower of Constance where women were imprisoned. You can see scratched in the wall "Resistez"--resist! The top right is the entrance into the Desert Museum which is actually the home of one of the main Protestant leaders of the time. The bottom right is Les Baux, a city built on a limestone mountain, where the Huguenots resisted the king's soldiers until they starved and ran out of water. You can't help but wonder what France would be like today if she had not had this sad period in her history.