Saint-André-de-Lancize

Saint-André-de-Lancize
Commune
The temple of Rouve Bas: today desacralized, it is now a memorial devoted to the Camisard war in Bougès mountains (Cévennes)
Saint-André-de-Lancize Location within Occitanie region Saint-André-de-Lancize
Coordinates: 44°15′32″N 3°48′40″E / 44.2589°N 3.8111°E / 44.2589; 3.8111Coordinates: 44°15′32″N 3°48′40″E / 44.2589°N 3.8111°E / 44.2589; 3.8111
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Lozère
Arrondissement	Florac
Canton	Le Collet-de-Dèze
Intercommunality	Vallée Longue et du Calbertois en Cévennes
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Violaine Martin
Area1	22.78 km2 (8.80 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	112
• Density	4.9/km2 (13/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	48136 /48240
Elevation	376–1,351 m (1,234–4,432 ft) (avg. 700 m or 2,300 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-André-de-Lancize is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

History of the commune is mainly marked by the Camisards revolt, which started on July 22, 1702, in Vieljouves, a hamlet located above the village of Le Rouve. On the same evening, upon invitation by Salomon and David Couderc, two brothers living in Le Rouve, a group gathered around the woolcomber Abraham Mazel, a "prophet", who received a "divine" inspiration giving him the instruction to deliver huguenots made prisoners and tortured by François Langlade, the abbé of Chayla at Pont-de-Montvert. The following Sunday was devoted to mobilize people who were volunteers to release prisoners. On July 24, fifty men, armed with some guns, axes and scythes, gathered on top of Bougès mountain, at a site named "Les treis Faus" or "Les trois fayards" (meaning "Three beeches" in Occitan and French language, respectively). On the same evening, around 10 AM, they entered Pont-de-Montvert while singing a psalm. They asked, as their only claim, to liberate prisoners. Upon refusal, they liberated them by force, in the course of a violent fight where François Langlade died. So went the Camisards war, also called war of the Cévennes, which later on extended to the whole Cévennes area, and lasted two years.