Arnaud, HENRI

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 439

Arnaud, HENRI (1641–1721), pastor and successful military leader of the Waldenses (q.v.), was born at La Tour, in Piedmont, and died among his exiled brethren at Schönberg. In his retirement here he wrote his famous Histoire de la Glorieuse Rentrée des Vaudois dans leurs Vallées (1710). It was dedicated to Queen Anne, and has been twice translated into English.

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