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What Was the Total Death Toll of the Camisard Rebellion?

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Monahan's archival study documents village level destruction and individual engagement casualties across the Cevennes but reports no total figure for the war's dead, and no later historian has aggregated the surviving parish, garrison and property destruction records into one count.

What would resolve this A systematic tally from the parish, garrison and property destruction records Monahan's own research draws on, combined into a single war wide casualty estimate of the kind no historian has yet published.
OpenEarly modern French history; historical demographyW. Gregory Monahan, Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards
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Camisard Rebellion, Wars & Conflicts

Monahan's standard modern history of the war documents destruction in detail but reports no war wide total for the dead.

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Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards
W. Gregory Monahan, Oxford University Press, 2014
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