CHAPTER XV.

THE EXILE.

New Troubles--Louis XIV. and his Confessor--Edict against the Vaudois--Their Defenceless Condition--Their Fight and Victory--They Surrender--The Whole Nation Thrown into Prison--Utter Desolation of the Land--Horrors of the Imprisonment--Their Release--Journey across the Alps--Its Hardships--Arrival of the Exiles at Geneva--Their Hospitable Reception 166