... to make religious concessions, a sign of weakness on their part. With the moderate pressure on Huguenots before to convert, the Calvinists might have been reduced to vanishing point but the Revocation ensured its survival as an underground phenomenon. Another reason for the attack on Huguenots was Louis' obsession with unity. He regarded heresy as a disfigurement. However, despite the hold that the Catholic Church had on France and the people's belief in absolutism, there was still opposition to what Louis did. The Catholics objected to the brutal use of Dragonnades and the Revocation provoked a rebellion by the Huguenots, the revolt of the Camisards. Louis, by the Revocation and his actions against the Huguenots threatened his absolutism as it stirred the opposition of the nobles, Parliaments, Huguenots and Jansenists. The Revocation was also a near fatal mistake since it marked the beginning of openly voiced opposition to Louis. The ...

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