Anne Robert et la condamnation de la secte des Multipliants (Montpellier, mars-juin 1723)

On March 6, 1723, Louis de Bernage, intendant of Languedoc, arrested a group of Protestants gathered in Montpellier at the home of Anne Robert, widow of the merchant Jean Verchand. This strange “sect of the Multipliers” represents one of the…